From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755583AbbJ2LXn (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:23:43 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f180.google.com ([209.85.212.180]:33394 "EHLO mail-wi0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751193AbbJ2LXl (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Oct 2015 07:23:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:23:37 +0000 From: Lee Jones To: Henrik Juul Pedersen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: MFD/OF: simple-mfd not being matched in 4.1.x Message-ID: <20151029112337.GO4058@x1> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 29 Oct 2015, Henrik Juul Pedersen wrote: > A patch for adding 'simple-mfd' match to drivers/of/platform.c was > added to the kernel tree, but is not in the 4.1.x long term branch. > However drivers in the branch (such as at91rm9200 watchdog) requires > this. For more information on the correct process to get this patch applied to -stable, please see: Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt > linux-stable commit id 22869a9eca4ea5b534538d160b68c7aef44e378a > > Could the patch be applied to the 4.1.x tree? > > Link to the patch in question on kernel gitweb: > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/patch/drivers/of/platform.c?id=22869a9eca4ea5b534538d160b68c7aef44e378a > > I've cherry-picked it locally on a 4.1.6 arm kernel, and it seems to works fine. > > Best regards > Henrik Juul Pedersen > LIAB ApS -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog