From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:36536 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750741AbeDQPJ3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Apr 2018 11:09:29 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 17:09:22 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Jonathan Corbet Cc: mawilcox@microsoft.com, jani.nikula@intel.com, tiwai@suse.de, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Documentation/sphinx: Fix Directive import error" failed to apply to 4.16-stable tree Message-ID: <20180417150922.GA23091@kroah.com> References: <1523971114409@kroah.com> <20180417090013.1cf67f17@lwn.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180417090013.1cf67f17@lwn.net> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 09:00:13AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:18:34 +0200 > wrote: > > > The patch below does not apply to the 4.16-stable tree. > > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm > > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit > > id to . > > So I'm a little confused...the reason it doesn't apply (in any of > 4.1[456]) is that it's already there. Not quite sure why it's coming > around on the guitar again? It must have come in through some other tree so it's now in two different commits? Anyway, no problem, it happens a lot for bugfixes, thanks for checking and letting me know. greg k-h