From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9AEC282C2 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:17:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D84C4222BA for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:17:06 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1550067427; bh=2GnnwRE5/7SLIsRtSHqhRU4tZb+EQPh1M6/yRoti5UA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=GIkAC8sagoTGx7J4QVNdqzYBioMPGNrojSel0X3HD05DWneJQJ45QfNX+BkVnLibb sa0Lak95PuXuAi6jfpgWl6Kf7GLNnbCaHhjv1SaHhDhWyNRDvMOHBticoI0RgaR+Cu HrLqTZDLW7bXLMgRKEjwvwlAPeinWq5N7PGdSp7I= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1729327AbfBMORG (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:17:06 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:50188 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726654AbfBMORG (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:17:06 -0500 Received: from localhost (5356596B.cm-6-7b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F3884222B5; Wed, 13 Feb 2019 14:17:04 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1550067425; bh=2GnnwRE5/7SLIsRtSHqhRU4tZb+EQPh1M6/yRoti5UA=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=ABtsAKSrgT0C/5Qn7+31eb+hh/n+Nek1Bo53FWvGXGjguZnl+GD9Ftq5hxE64noKY hHL79PAmJjp8g0NG83rTtLQt/vJ7+RBprA2wWiqMlbdszwEBo2hqSHzV3n3qcjfZRF QgtqogNdrw56KcyWbHXpFY7Zu2dyKrZyPrOZFyh8= Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2019 15:17:03 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Linus Walleij Cc: stable , Mark Brown , Arnd Bergmann , Sumit Semwal , Amit Pundir , openwrt-devel@openwrt.org, Felix Fietkau , Eric Dumazet , =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= , John Youn , Liping Zhang , Dave Taht , Koen Vandeputte , Hauke Mehrtens , Alin Nastac , Eli Cooper , Craig Gallek , Stefano Brivio Subject: Re: Elegible stable v4.9.x commits used by OpenWrt Message-ID: <20190213141703.GC10202@kroah.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 04:39:08PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > Hi Greg, > > I recently sifted through the OpenWrt stack of backports to v4.9 and > made a list of upstream commits that exist in their kernel but are not > in the stable tree for v4.9. > > Out of 104 patches I classified: > > Number backported from later kernels that should possibly/probably go > into stable: 17 > > Backported from later kernels to gain performance: 13 > > Backported because of new hardware support or convinent new > frameworks: 74 You have a lot of information here, but it's hard to sift through it properly. Some of the patches you list here have already been merged in stable releases, so adding them again is odd :) Can you just send a series of patches that you think should be merged based on these commits? thanks, greg k-h