linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3.18 053/144] ARM: OMAP2+: Fix n900 board name for legacy user space

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Message-ID: <20181108224437.GA20928@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Nov 2018 14:44:37 -0800
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.18 053/144] ARM: OMAP2+: Fix n900 board name for legacy
 user space

On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 11:05:30PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2018-11-08 13:50:24, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 3.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > [ Upstream commit 71c4f6027da75c6c1fd92e05b63108a09ec2b109 ]
> > 
> > N900 legacy user space apps need the board name in
> > /proc/cpuinfo to work properly for the Hardware entry.
> > 
> > For other boards this should not be an issues and they
> > can use the generic Hardware entry.
> > 
> > Let's fix the issue by adding a custom DT_MACHINE_START
> > for n900.
> > 
> > Tested-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
> > Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
> > Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
> 
> I don't think this is good idea. N900 support changed a lot in the
> meantime. It may not be neccessary or may break something, not
> sure. Not comfortable with this w/o testing.

Ok now dropped, thanks for letting me know.

greg k-h