Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] tracepoints: Do not trace when cpu is offline" failed to apply to 3.14-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 09:21:14AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:37:04 -0800
> Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 10:24:40PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > > On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:48:47 -0800
> > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >   
> > > > The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable tree.
> > > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > > > id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.  
> > > 
> > > Hmm, strange. I just checked out v3.14.60 and did:
> > > 
> > >  $ git cherry-pick f37755490fe9bf76f6ba1d8c6591745d3574a6a6
> > > 
> > > and it applied without issue.  
> > 
> > Yes, it applies, sorry, but it breaks the build :(
> > 
> > Same for 3.10-stable.  It applies but can not compile.
> > 
> > can you fix that up?
> 
> Yep I'll go work on that. But can you change your scripts to say it
> broke the build, and possibly give a config file with it. The current
> email just says "The patch below does not apply to the 3.14-stable
> tree."

The number of times that a patch applies but then breaks the build makes
it pretty low for me to write a new script for that, sorry...