From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de>
Cc: alexandru.ardelean@analog.com, axboe@kernel.dk, pflin@suse.com,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] bcache: Revert "bcache: use sysfs_match_string() instead of" failed to apply to 5.2-stable tree
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2019 07:27:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190812052730.GA8988@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005a245a-1ac5-f5f5-506c-995c003e5912@suse.de>
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 01:04:24PM +0800, Coly Li wrote:
> On 2019/8/12 12:09 上午, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 11:41:57PM +0800, Coly Li wrote:
> >> On 2019/8/11 11:01 下午, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> >>>
> >>> The patch below does not apply to the 5.2-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 <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
> >>>
> >>> thanks,
> >>>
> >>> greg k-h
> >>
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> I will post a rebased patch for the 5.2-stable tree.
> >
> > Is it really needed?
> >
> > I ask because in the patch it says:
> >
> >>> This bug was introduced in Linux v5.2, so this fix only applies to
> >>> Linux v5.2 is enough for stable tree maintainer.
> >>>
> >>> Fixes: 89e0341af082 ("bcache: use sysfs_match_string() instead of __sysfs_match_string()")
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> >
> > But commit 89e0341af082 showed up in 5.3-rc1, not 5.2.
> >
> > So why is this needed in 5.2.y?
>
> Indeed I was not sure which version this patch was merged, so I ran,
> > git describe 89e0341af082
> v5.2-rc4-245-g89e0341af082
>
> It seems I use git in an incorrect way. After check man git-describe I
> see '--contains' should be added (to find a tag which after/contains the
> commit),
> > git describe --contains 89e0341af082
> v5.3-rc1~164^2~57
>
> Yes, the fixing bug is from v5.3-rc1. Please ignore the noise....
No problem, thanks for the confirmation.
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-11 15:01 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] bcache: Revert "bcache: use sysfs_match_string() instead of" failed to apply to 5.2-stable tree gregkh
2019-08-11 15:41 ` Coly Li
2019-08-11 16:09 ` Greg KH
2019-08-12 5:04 ` Coly Li
2019-08-12 5:27 ` Greg KH [this message]
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