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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 13:31:52 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>,
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	Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.12 056/212] ahci: add support for IBM Akebono platform
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On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:53:06PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >
> > This one is a little funny.  There's really nothing wrong with the
> > patch itself, nor adding it to 3.12.y, but it seems pretty pointless.
> > The support for the Akebono board hasn't even landed in 3.13-rcX yet,
> > and I really doubt it's going to show up in 3.12.y.  Seems kind of
> > superfluous.
> 
> I generally automatically cc stable for patches which simply add
> device IDs because they're low risk and distros / whoever is
> maintaining older kernel wants to see them. Didn't know it wouldn't
> work at all in earlier kernels. Please feel free to drop.

Ok, now dropped, thanks.

greg k-h