Re: Request for stable inclusion

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 05:24:27PM +0800, Kai Heng Feng wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 19 Oct 2017, at 5:11 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 04:58:44PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Please include commit ("6cecdf7a161d drm/dp/mst: save vcpi with
> >> payloads") to Stable tree.
> >> 
> >> In commit ("bb08c04dc867 drm/dp/mst: fix kernel oops when turning off
> >> secondary monitor"), variable "mgr->payloads[i].vcpi" won't get update
> >> without this patch.
> >> 
> >> bb08c04dc867 was backported to v3.18+, so this patch is also needed by v3.18+.
> > 
> > What stable tree(s) do you think this should be applied to?  If it
> > hasn't already been applied, odds are there was something preventing it
> > from going there (build error, or it doesn't apply?)
> > 
> > Do you have working backported versions?
> 
> It should be applied to both v3.18 and v4.4. It can be cleanly cherry-picked into both linux-3.18.y and linux-4.4.y.
> 
> The patch doesn’t CC to stable, I think that’s why it didn’t get applied to stable kernels.

Ah, my appologies, I was looking at the wrong one in your email above.

> I can’t say for v3.18, but I can confirm that on v4.4, this patch is required to fix MST issue.

Now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h