linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] remoteproc: properly fix missing CONFIG_FW

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Date:	Wed, 6 Mar 2013 20:12:21 +0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
Cc:	Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@...ery.com>, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remoteproc: properly fix missing CONFIG_FW_LOADER
 configurations

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 08:53:22AM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 08:46 +0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:22:49PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > > 1) But actually thinking about this: that upstream commit did end up in
> > > the (longterm) v3.4.y series. And my patch is also relevant for the
> > > v3.8.y series.
> > 
> > As that patch was in the 3.5-rc7 release, how can it be relevant for
> > 3.8, or anything greater than 3.5 at all?
> 
> I seem to have confused you. My patch fixes a bug caused by a commit
> that shipped in final release v3.5 (and is also part the 3.4.y series,
> because that commit got added to that stable series).

What commit are you talking about here?  Please read
Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to have a patch applied to
the stable kernel releases.

Hint, this isn't how you do it...

greg k-h
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