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Date:   Thu, 15 Apr 2021 07:20:53 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>,
        stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
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        John Crispin <blogic@openwrt.org>
Subject: Re: "Backport" of 441bf7332d55 ("staging: m57621-mmc: delete driver
 from the tree.") as well for older stable series still supported?
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On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:32:01AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 09:44:06PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
>> Hi Greg, Sasha, all,
>>
>> Prompted by https://bugs.debian.org/986949 it looks that files with
>> prolematic license are present in stable series in
>> drivers/staging/mt7621-mmc/ prior to 441bf7332d55 ("staging:
>> m57621-mmc: delete driver from the tree.") where those were removed in
>> 5.2-rc1.
>>
>> As the license text at it is presented is problematic at best, would
>> this removal make sense as well in the current other stable series
>> which contain it? The files goes back to it's addition in 4.17-rc1.
>>
>> So it would remain v4.19.y where the files should/can be removed as
>> well from the staging area?
>
>Yeah, it is odd, and we probably should not continue to distribute new
>updates with it in the tree.
>
>As the commit does not backport cleanly, can you provide a working
>backport that I can apply?

I killed it :) Thanks for the heads up!

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Thanks,
Sasha