linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] w1: gpio: fix problem with platfom data in w1-gpio

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Date:   Wed, 4 Apr 2018 18:44:13 +0200
From:   Paweł Dembicki <paweldembicki@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
        "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>, Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] w1: gpio: fix problem with platfom data in w1-gpio

2018-03-29 12:01 GMT+02:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>:
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:47:25AM +0200, Paweł Dembicki wrote:
>> 2018-03-17 12:55 GMT+01:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>:
>>
>> > Where is this patch supposed to go?  Is this a stable backport patch, or
>> > something to go into Linus's tree?
>>
>> I tested it in 4.9 and 4.14 kernels in OpenERT. So it is a stable
>> backport patch.
>
> What commit is being backported.
>

This commit resolve problem in mainline:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e0fc62a6552f3d9c21e73cc65844f9aad1892cf7

>> In current release this bug is fixed because w1-gpio use gpiod.
>
> Then why can we not just use the actual patch that fixes this?


I think, mainline commit is big change. My patch is answer for problem
in stable kernels, which is resolved in mainline.


>
>> Sorry. This was my first patch.
>
> Please read:
>     https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> for how to submit a patch for the stable tree.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h


Pawel Dembicki