From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: WTF: patch "[PATCH] pinctrl: armada-37xx: Fix gpio interrupt setup" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.13-stable tree?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:56:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170921115652.GA31375@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ingcnusq.fsf@free-electrons.com>
On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 01:41:09PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On jeu., sept. 21 2017, <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> > The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.13-stable tree.
> >
> > I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at
> > Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.
>
> When I submitted the patch, I thought it fixed a commit which was there
> in 4.13 but actually it was introduced during the 4.14 merge window.
>
> However I thought the "Fixes:" flag was used to automatically apply it
> on the correct kernel (here it was 4.14).
Fair enough, I wanted to check as 4.14 isn't released yet, and it seemed
a bit odd to see a stable tag for it just yet :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-21 10:59 WTF: patch "[PATCH] pinctrl: armada-37xx: Fix gpio interrupt setup" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.13-stable tree? gregkh
2017-09-21 11:41 ` Gregory CLEMENT
2017-09-21 11:56 ` Greg KH [this message]
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