From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org,
"Marek Szyprowski" <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
"Christian König" <christian.koenig@amd.com>,
"Daniel Vetter" <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Subject: Re: Patch for stable 4.5+ (dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl)
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 11:19:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170414091930.GC6372@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAO_48GHHeNBskfzSvncYh1wSxJyTpb0=PR_r9c8QxWNAFFjk+A@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:23:20AM +0530, Sumit Semwal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Upstream commit 888022c0473d079bff9b47fb50434b1f20f8f37f
> Subject: dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl
> Applicable to: 4.5+ stable kernels
>
> The cc:stable got missed while this patch got applied for mainline; it
> allows a 32-bit application to use DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC with 64-bit
> kernel.
Is this a new feature being added? Why is this a stable kernel patch?
And always cc: the authors of the patch involved when asking for a
stable backport, it keeps me from having to add them to the cc: when
asking questions like this :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-14 9:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-14 5:53 Patch for stable 4.5+ (dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl) Sumit Semwal
2017-04-14 9:19 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-04-14 9:31 ` Sumit Semwal
2017-04-14 9:35 ` Marek Szyprowski
2017-04-16 7:57 ` Greg KH
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