linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4.8 00/57] 4.8.4-stable review

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Date:   Sat, 22 Oct 2016 11:58:51 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux@...ck-us.net,
        shuah.kh@...sung.com, patches@...nelci.org,
        ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.8 00/57] 4.8.4-stable review

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 11:02:13PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, October 21, 2016 11:17:23 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.8.4 release.
> > There are 57 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
> > to this one.  If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
> > let me know.
> > 
> > Responses should be made by Sun Oct 23 09:14:19 UTC 2016.
> > Anything received after that time might be too late.
> 
> Please also add commit c6fe46a79ecd "cpufreq: fix overflow in
> cpufreq_table_find_index_dl()" to this series.
> 
> This is needed to fix a regression in an earlier somewhat broken fix that went
> into previous 4.8.y unfortunately.

Really?  It doesn't apply to 4.8-stable at all.  I haven't applied
899bb6642f2a2f2cd3f77abd6c5a14550e3b37e6 to the 4.8-stable tree yet, so
why should I add it at this point in time?

confused,

greg k-h