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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1303262136350.22263@ionos>
Date:	Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:37:53 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:	Gerlando Falauto <gerlando.falauto@...mile.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@...sung.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Simon Guinot <sguinot@...ie.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3b 0/9] refactoring for mask_cache

On Thu, 21 Mar 2013, Greg KH wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 06:12:02PM +0100, Gerlando Falauto wrote:
> > This patchset addresses a regression found with the Orion GPIO controller
> > when both Edge- and Level- based interrupts are requested within the same
> > GPIO chip. The regression was introduced by e59347a
> > "arm: orion: Use generic irq chip"
> > 
> > thereby affecting all kernel releases since 3.0.x.
> 
> <formletter>
> 
> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> for how to do this properly.
> 
> </formletter>

Aside of that it would be less intrusive for the stable series to
revert the offending commit(s), if that is possible.

Thanks,

	tglx



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