Re: [PATCH] remoteproc: properly fix missing CONFIG_FW_LOADERconfigurations

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:22:49PM +0100, Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-03-06 at 05:54 +0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
> > stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
> > for how to do this properly.
> 
> 0) Actually I just copied the addresses included in commit
> e121aefa7d9f10eee5cf26ed47129237a05d940b upstream without really
> thinking.
> 
> 1) But actually thinking about this: that upstream commit did end up in
> the (longterm) v3.4.y series. And my patch is also relevant for the
> v3.8.y series.

As that patch was in the 3.5-rc7 release, how can it be relevant for
3.8, or anything greater than 3.5 at all?

> Can't this patch, that fixes an obviously bogus commit,
> which was important enough for stable, be itself submitted with
> CC:stable?

How can you expect me to apply something that is already in the tree?  :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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