Re: [PATCH 3.15 14/84] serial: imx: Fix build breakage

Stephen Rothwell
2014-07-16T00:57:07Z

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Hi Greg,

On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:42:02 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:24:14AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:17:11 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > 3.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
> > >
> > > commit 8bec751bd63847b4044aab8b215db52aa6abde61 upstream.
> > >
> > > Fix breakage introduced by
> > > commit c557d392fbf5badd693ea1946a4317c87a26a716,
> > > 'serial: Test for no tx data on tx restart'.
> >
> > That commit only entered Linus' tree at v3.16-rc5, so this fix
> > shouldn't need to go into 3.15-stable (unless the original patch was
> > backported as well - in which case maybe the backport commit id should
> > be mentioned as well).
>
> c557d392fbf5badd693ea1946a4317c87a26a716, is marked for stable (and is
> earlier in the series) so leaving this as-is, should be fine, as that
> commit id will show up in the stable kernels as well in the changelog
> entry.

Ah, ok. So you don't merge "fixes for fixes" to save bisection
problems, then? (Just asking)

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au

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