linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.16 091/254] MIPS: CPS: Fix r1 .set mt assembler warning

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Date:   Sat, 03 Mar 2018 15:48:58 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.16 091/254] MIPS: CPS: Fix r1 .set mt assembler warning

On Thu, 2018-03-01 at 13:44 +0000, James Hogan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 03:20:18PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 3.16.55-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
> > 
> > commit 17278a91e04f858155d54bee5528ba4fbcec6f87 upstream.
> 
> You'll want this too:
> 
> 8dbc1864b74f5dea5a3f7c30ca8fd358a675132f
> MIPS: CPS: Fix MIPS_ISA_LEVEL_RAW fallout
> 
> Its only tagged for stable 4.15 since the one it fixes wasn't tagged for
> stable.
> 
> If you're going to select patches for backporting based on Fixes tags,
> maybe its worth looking for patches which are marked as fixing ones
> you've backported too.

I do that, but didn't look beyond v4.15 yet.  Here's the version of
that fix I've ended up with for 3.16.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
[W]e found...that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had
thought. ... I realized that a large part of my life from then on was
going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs. - Maurice
Wilkes, 1949


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