linux-kernel - Re: ARC stable backport request

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Date:	Wed, 3 Aug 2016 07:42:01 +0200
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Cc:	Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>,
	"stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	arcml <linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@...opsys.com>
Subject: Re: ARC stable backport request

On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 09:45:56AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> On 08/02/2016, 09:00 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 05:13:31PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Can we please backport a6416f57ce57fb390b "ARC: use ASL assembler mnemonic".
> >> Newer binutils don't like ASL instruction and fail to build kernels prior to v4.4
> >> which added this fix.
> > 
> > Didn't apply to 3.14-stable :(
> 
> I have a backport in 3.12. There was a conflict in comments. Could you
> try that?
> 
> commit fa5d506592a759b7848a59d1d5a025af8c9a7a6c
> Author: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
> Date:   Thu Nov 5 09:13:31 2015 +0530
> 
>     ARC: use ASL assembler mnemonic
> 
>     commit a6416f57ce57fb390b6ee30b12c01c29032a26af upstream.
> 
>     ARCompact and ARCv2 only have ASL, while binutils used to support LSL as
>     a alias mnemonic.
> 
>     Newer binutils (upstream) don't want to do that so replace it.
> 
>     Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>

Ah, that worked, thanks, now applied.

greg k-h