From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:37792 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754306AbdAIJjx (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2017 04:39:53 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 10:40:14 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Jonathan Cameron , stable Subject: 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? Message-ID: <20170109094014.GB16094@kroah.com> References: <148395031421136@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:03:31AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:25 AM, 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 > > 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