Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] iio: adc: TI_AM335X_ADC should depend on HAS_DMA" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.9-stable tree?

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:03:31AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:25 AM,  <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.9-stable tree.
> >
> > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> > Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
> 
> s@stable_kernel_rules.txt@process/stable-kernel-rules.rst@g
> 
> Time to update the scripts? ;-)

Ah, yes, thanks, will go do that now.

> > I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to
> > <stable@vger.kernel.org> and let me know why this patch should be
> > applied.  Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be
> > seen again.
> 
> I don't mind if you drop it, but it does fix a (obscure) build error.

It does on 4.9?  Not according to the patch itself:

    Fixes: f438b9da (" drivers: iio: ti_am335x_adc: add dma support")

$ git describe --contains f438b9da
v4.10-rc1~148^2~367^2~6^2

So why should this be applied to 4.9?

thanks,

greg k-h