linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.15 14/84] serial: imx: Fix build breakage

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Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2014 10:56:56 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.15 14/84] serial: imx: Fix build breakage

Hi Greg,

On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:42:02 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 10:24:14AM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 16:17:11 -0700 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > 3.15-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
> > > 
> > > commit 8bec751bd63847b4044aab8b215db52aa6abde61 upstream.
> > > 
> > > Fix breakage introduced by
> > > commit c557d392fbf5badd693ea1946a4317c87a26a716,
> > > 'serial: Test for no tx data on tx restart'.
> > 
> > That commit only entered Linus' tree at v3.16-rc5, so this fix
> > shouldn't need to go into 3.15-stable (unless the original patch was
> > backported as well - in which case maybe the backport commit id should
> > be mentioned as well).
> 
> c557d392fbf5badd693ea1946a4317c87a26a716, is marked for stable (and is
> earlier in the series) so leaving this as-is, should be fine, as that
> commit id will show up in the stable kernels as well in the changelog
> entry.

Ah, ok.  So you don't merge "fixes for fixes" to save bisection
problems, then?  (Just asking)

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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