linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] video: fbdev: fix divide error in fbcon

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Date:   Thu, 29 Oct 2020 12:30:40 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
Cc:     Saeed Mirzamohammadi <saeed.mirzamohammadi@...cle.com>,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, b.zolnierkie@...sung.com,
        daniel.vetter@...ll.ch, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, gustavoars@...nel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, rppt@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] video: fbdev: fix divide error in fbcon_switch

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 01:13:01PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2020, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 10:12:49AM -0700, Saeed Mirzamohammadi wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >> 
> >> Sorry for the confusion. I’m requesting stable maintainers to cherry-pick this patch into stable 5.4 and 5.8.
> >> commit cc07057c7c88fb8eff3b1991131ded0f0bcfa7e3
> >> Author: Saeed Mirzamohammadi <saeed.mirzamohammadi@...cle.com>
> >> Date:   Wed Oct 21 16:57:58 2020 -0700
> >> 
> >>     video: fbdev: fix divide error in fbcon_switch
> >
> > I do not see that commit in Linus's tree, do you?
> 
> It's in drm-misc-next, IIUC heading for Linus' tree in the next merge
> window in 6-8 weeks. Which is to say this should probably have been
> applied to drm-misc-fixes branch heading for v5.10-rcX, with a Cc:
> stable tag, to begin with.

Ok, nothing I can do with this now, please email stable@...r.kernel.org
when it hits Linus's tree and we can take it then.

Saeed, please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

thanks,

greg k-h