From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:33616 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932491AbbHJUee (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:34:34 -0400 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id F326621B26 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:34:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: WTF: patch "[PATCH] MIPS: BMIPS: Delete unused Kconfig symbol" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.1-stable tree? To: cernekee@chromium.org, f.fainelli@gmail.com, ralf@linux-mips.org, valentinrothberg@gmail.com Cc: From: Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:34:22 -0700 Message-ID: <1439238862220@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.1-stable tree. I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >>From 3592bb08fb2da21157bc2837c4c9a951b84d0c7a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Cernekee Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:52:50 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: BMIPS: Delete unused Kconfig symbol This was left over from an earlier iteration of the BMIPS irqchip changes. It doesn't actually have an effect, so let's nuke it. Reported-by: Valentin Rothberg Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee Acked-by: Florian Fainelli Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.1+ Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9910/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig index cee5f93e5712..199a8357838c 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig @@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ config BMIPS_GENERIC select BCM7120_L2_IRQ select BRCMSTB_L2_IRQ select IRQ_MIPS_CPU - select RAW_IRQ_ACCESSORS select DMA_NONCOHERENT select SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL select SYS_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN