RE: [char-msic 1/3] mei: me: disable driver on SPT SPS firmware

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 02:44:44PM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:

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commit 8c57cac1457f3125a5d13dc03635c0708c61bff0 upstream

Sunrise Point PCH with SPS Firmware doesn't expose working MEI
interface, we need to quirk it out.
The SPS Firmware is identifiable only on the first PCI function of the
device.

Cc: <redacted> #4.4
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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 drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c  | 10 ++++++++--  drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c
|  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

I don't understand what this is for, it's already in the 4.8-stable tree.  And there
you said it only needed to go to 4.6 and newer, yet you are saying 4.4 here?
What am I supposed to do?

It's needed 4.4, but the original patch does apply cleanly only from 4.6 up, so this is the rebased version over 4.4. Since 4.4 is a long term kernel this is important.
I  see from time to time broken patches in stable,  mostly in 3.X series, so I prefer to do the back port myself. 

Thanks
Tomas