From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58892 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751531AbdIUL4l (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2017 07:56:41 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2017 13:56:52 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Gregory CLEMENT 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? Message-ID: <20170921115652.GA31375@kroah.com> References: <150599159022769@kroah.com> <87ingcnusq.fsf@free-electrons.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87ingcnusq.fsf@free-electrons.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 01:41:09PM +0200, Gregory CLEMENT wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On jeu., sept. 21 2017, 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