From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56082 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751446AbdK0MCY (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2017 07:02:24 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:02:27 +0100 From: Greg KH To: James Morse Cc: rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, bp@suse.de, stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch "ACPI / APEI: Remove arch_apei_flush_tlb_one()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree Message-ID: <20171127120227.GA24404@kroah.com> References: <151161806787183@kroah.com> <5A1BFC4D.6040303@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5A1BFC4D.6040303@arm.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 11:51:41AM +0000, James Morse wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On 25/11/17 13:54, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled > > > > ACPI / APEI: Remove arch_apei_flush_tlb_one() > > > > to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary > > > > The filename of the patch is: > > acpi-apei-remove-arch_apei_flush_tlb_one.patch > > and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, > > please let know about it. > > I don't think this patch should applied to the stable trees: > > This patch is cleanup following 'ACPI / APEI: Replace ioremap_page_range() with > fixmap', which failed to apply to this tree. Having this patch will lead to > build-breakage with exotic Kconfig options! "exotic" is just any normal x86 build :) This was dropped from all of the stable trees already because the previous patch did not apply. thanks, greg k-h