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Message-ID: <1362556402.16460.158.camel@x61.thuisdomein>
Date:	Wed, 06 Mar 2013 08:53:22 +0100
From:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
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, 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).

> > Can't this patch, that fixes an obviously bogus commit,
> > which was important enough for stable, be itself submitted with
> > CC:stable?
> 
> How can you expect me to apply something that is already in the tree?  :)

It's not (yet) in the tree but fixes something that is in the tree. 


Paul Bolle

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