Re: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] ata: libahci: clear pending interrupt status" failed to apply to 4.14-stable tree

[Niklas Cassel <Niklas.Cassel@wdc.com>]

On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 11:57:25AM +0000, Niklas Cassel wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 11:57:19AM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 4.14-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>.
> > 
> > To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
> > 
> > git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-4.14.y
> > git checkout FETCH_HEAD
> > git cherry-pick -x 737dd811a3dbfd7edd4ad2ba5152e93d99074f83
> > # <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
> > git commit -s
> > git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2023092019-aptitude-device-3909@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 4.14.y' HEAD^..
> > 
> > Possible dependencies:
> > 
> > 737dd811a3db ("ata: libahci: clear pending interrupt status")
> > 93c7711494f4 ("ata: ahci: Drop pointless VPRINTK() calls and convert the remaining ones")
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Hello Greg,
> 
> Seeing that this fix failed to be backported to 4.14, 4.19, 5.4, 5.10 and 5.15,
> simply because of a single pointless VPRINTK() call,
> may I suggest that we cherry-pick this very small dependency commit:
> 
> 93c7711494f4 ("ata: ahci: Drop pointless VPRINTK() calls and convert the remaining ones")
> for all the stable kernels listed above.
> 
> After that, the original git commit can be cherry-picked to all stable kernels
> listed above without conflicts.

Hello Greg,

Any comments on this?


Kind regards,
Niklas