linux-kernel - Re: [char-msic 1/3] mei: me: disable driver on SPT SPS firmware

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Message-ID: <20161129191435.GA29438@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 29 Nov 2016 20:14:35 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [char-msic 1/3] mei: me: disable driver on SPT SPS firmware

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 02:44:44PM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> commit 8c57cac1457f3125a5d13dc03635c0708c61bff0 upstream
> 
> Sunrise Point PCH with SPS Firmware doesn't expose working
> MEI interface, we need to quirk it out.
> The SPS Firmware is identifiable only on the first PCI function
> of the device.
> 
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> #4.4
> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c  | 10 ++++++++--
>  drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c |  4 ++--
>  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

I don't understand what this is for, it's already in the 4.8-stable
tree.  And there you said it only needed to go to 4.6 and newer, yet you
are saying 4.4 here?  What am I supposed to do?

confused,

greg k-h