linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.9 115/152] ARM: davinci: add skeleton for pdata-quirks

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Date:   Tue, 11 Apr 2017 20:12:12 +0530
From:   Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.9 115/152] ARM: davinci: add skeleton for pdata-quirks

On Tuesday 11 April 2017 08:02 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 12:11:53PM +0530, Sekhar Nori wrote:
>> On Monday 10 April 2017 10:12 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> 4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>>>
>>> ------------------
>>>
>>> From: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
>>>
>>> [ Upstream commit 9c9b1bc25291e275b04f758f2549c81e092954f5 ]
>>>
>>> Add skeleton pdata-quirks for davinci.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>
>>> [nsekhar@...com: move changes to build pdata-quirks.c and call
>>> 		 to pdata_quirks_init() to this patch]
>>> Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@...izon.com>
>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
>>
>> This does not add any useful feature or bug fix on its own. I don't
>> think it should be backported to stable.
> 
> Yeah, that's really odd.  It doesn't seem to do anything in Linus's tree
> either...

We have built on top for this for v4.12 kernel. Those patches are
present in latest linux-next.

> I'll drop it from the stable trees queues now, thanks.

Thanks!

Regards,
Sekhar