Hi Greg,

On 18/07/17 21:06, Greg KH wrote:

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 07:31:35PM +0100, Eddie Chapman wrote:

quoted

As per previous mail, below are the 4 patches discussed, generated with 
diff -up, from kernel.org 4.4.77, so with correct context for 4.4. Just 
in case they are useful for anyone.

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>

I know, I certainly did not want to submit these patches for inclusion in the stable kernel yet! As I said, I only sent them to Tang and others in case they were useful. I'm just trying to help with testing.

Note, I can't do anything with patches until they are in Linus's tree.
Please work to get them accepted there, then we can worry about
backporting them to older kernels if they are needed.

Hold your fire! :-) I know, I said exactly the same myself earlier in this thread, that they must be in Linus' tree first.

Sorry if I gave the wrong idea. Maybe I should have removed stable@ from CC? But I thought that would not be good in case someone found the thread in future and wanted to know.

Eddie

thanks,

greg k-h