linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.4 00/37] 3.4.79-stable review

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Date:	Tue, 4 Feb 2014 23:22:05 +0100
From:	Guillaume Morin <guillaume@...infr.org>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	john.stultz@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.4 00/37] 3.4.79-stable review

On 04 Feb 14:11, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
> > >     rtc-cmos: Add an alarm disable quirk
> > 
> > This is just one of the 3 patches posted by John Stultz on
> > http://git.linaro.org/people/john.stultz/linux.git/shortlog/refs/heads/stable/3.4/timefix
> 
> I have no idea what that tree is, nor what I am supposed to do with it.

Ok, sorry. This is all coming from 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/77575/

I assumed you were aware of it because you participated in the thread
and one of the patch mentioned in this message (Borislav's change) is
applied to the 3.4 branch

> > The other 2 are backports of 6fdda9a9c5db367130cf32df5d6618d08b89f46a
> > (timekeeping: Avoid possible deadlock from clock_was_set_delayed) and
> > ec145babe754f9ea1079034a108104b6001e001c (timekeeping: fix 32-bit
> > overflow in get_monotonic_boottime)
> > 
> > Could you explain why there were not included?
> 
> Can you explain why I would include them?

:) they seem to fix important issues and you seemed to be ok with
including them in stable trees at some point:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.stable/77261/

Note that I am not pushing for anything.  I was just under the
(incorrect) impression that you would apply them to the 3.4 branch and
was surprised when it did not happen

I hope the situation is a bit clearer.

Guillaume.

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Guillaume Morin <guillaume@...infr.org>
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