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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Keerthy <j-keerthy@ti.com>, Tero Kristo <kristo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Backport for linux-5.4.y PATCH 2/4] ARM: OMAP2+: Prepare timer code to backport dra7 timer wrap errata i940
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 19:13:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YL+lOumPYQ1fNoYw@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210602104625.6079-2-tony@atomide.com>

On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 01:46:23PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> Prepare linux-5.4.y to backport upstream timer wrap errata commit
> 3efe7a878a11c13b5297057bfc1e5639ce1241ce and commit
> 25de4ce5ed02994aea8bc111d133308f6fd62566. Earlier kernels still use
> mach-omap2/timer instead of drivers/clocksource as these kernels still
> depend on legacy platform code for timers. Note that earlier stable
> kernels need also additional patches and will be posted separately.

I do not understand this paragraph.

What upstream commit is this?  And "posted separately" shouldn't show up
in a changelog text, right?

Can you fix this up to make this obvious what is happening here and make
a patch series that I can take without editing changelog text?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-06-08 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-02 10:46 [Backport for linux-5.4.y PATCH 1/4] ARM: OMAP: replace setup_irq() by request_irq() Tony Lindgren
2021-06-02 10:46 ` [Backport for linux-5.4.y PATCH 2/4] ARM: OMAP2+: Prepare timer code to backport dra7 timer wrap errata i940 Tony Lindgren
2021-06-08 17:13   ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-06-09  6:13     ` Tony Lindgren
2021-06-09  6:22       ` Greg KH
2021-06-09  6:58         ` Tony Lindgren
2021-06-09  7:31           ` Greg KH
2021-06-09  8:50             ` Tony Lindgren
2021-06-02 10:46 ` [Backport for linux-5.4.y PATCH 3/4] ARM: OMAP2+: Prepare to handle dra7 timer wrap issue Tony Lindgren
2021-06-02 10:46 ` [Backport for linux-5.4.y PATCH 4/4] ARM: OMAP2+: Handle dra7 timer wrap errata i940 Tony Lindgren

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