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From: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Stable inclusion of "mfd: lpc_ich: Do not touch SPI-NOR write protection bit on Haswell/Broadwell"
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 14:15:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171218121524.GH22431@lahna.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171218120313.GA31295@kroah.com>

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:03:13PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 01:56:45PM +0200, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can following commit be included in stable kernel releases starting from
> > v4.11?
> > 
> >   d9018976cdb6eefc62a7ba79a405f6c9661b08a7 ("mfd: lpc_ich: Do not touch SPI-NOR write protection bit on Haswell/Broadwell")
> > 
> > This makes sure older kernels will not accidentally lose the BIOS
> > settings.
> 
> I would like to, but it fails to apply to the 4.9, 4.4, or even 3.18
> stable trees :(
> 
> Can you provide a working backport for the trees you think it is needed
> on?

Hmm, looks like it is only needed for v4.13 stable (in case it gets yet
another update, seems that v4.13 stable is EOL'ed). It should apply as is.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-18 12:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-18 11:56 Stable inclusion of "mfd: lpc_ich: Do not touch SPI-NOR write protection bit on Haswell/Broadwell" Mika Westerberg
2017-12-18 12:03 ` Greg KH
2017-12-18 12:15   ` Mika Westerberg [this message]
2017-12-18 12:35     ` Greg KH

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