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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 095/108] Bluetooth: btusb: Restore QCA Rome
 suspend/resume fix with a "rewritten" version
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On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 10:10:44AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 07:48:50AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 06:31:48PM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 04:17:32PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > > 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > Consider this an objection:
> > > 
> > > I'm currently arguing that this is unnecessarily regressing power
> > > consumption here:
> > > 
> > > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10149195/
> > > 
> > > I'll leave it up to you what to do with this, but if this ends up in
> > > Chromium OS kernels, I'm likely to revert it there...
> > 
> > Is that patch in Linus's tree yet?  If so, I'll be glad to also apply it
> > here.
> 
> The link is the original patch, where I'm (too late?) complaining about
> its side effects. Hans and Marcel are discussing potential alternatives.
> This stuff happens in -rc kernels. But you're already ready to push it
> out to -stable users? I can try to push another few reverts into Linus's
> tree if that really helps, or else you can wait on pushing these to
> -stable until 4.16 settles down.

I can drop this for now, but I really like to be "bug compatible" with
Linus's tree if at all possible.  That keeps the pressure on people to
get Linus's tree fixed :)

I'll drop this if the maintainer tells me to do so...

thanks,

greg k-h