From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:47638 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2389262AbeKXFTo (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Nov 2018 00:19:44 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 13:34:15 -0500 From: Sasha Levin To: Steven Rostedt Cc: Helge Deller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , "James E.J. Bottomley" , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [for-next][PATCH 08/18] parisc: function_graph: Simplify with function_graph_entry() Message-ID: <20181123183415.GB1917@sasha-vm> References: <20181122003332.500796758@goodmis.org> <20181123073033.2083020863@mail.kernel.org> <511cb47a-a1bd-bb5d-69ec-0836c6b5abfe@gmx.de> <20181123121253.278146b4@vmware.local.home> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181123121253.278146b4@vmware.local.home> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:12:53PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: >On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 10:06:05 +0100 >Helge Deller wrote: > > >> > How should we proceed with this patch? >> >> My suggestion, although I didn't looked too much on it: >> Apply it to v4.9 and higher only. >> I think I started fixing trace functionality on parisc around 4.6, >> which is probably why applying it fails on v4.4 and v3.x > >The problem is, if you backport the generic patches, it will completely >break any arch that isn't updated. This also includes the archs that >are no longer supported upstream, as they were not changed to handle >the generic updates either. Does this mean that someone (Steve) will send a backport of this to all relevant stable trees? Right now it looks like the series will randomly apply on a mix of trees, which can't be good. -- Thanks, Sasha