From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:53782 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726004AbeKXGML (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Nov 2018 01:12:11 -0500 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 14:26:31 -0500 From: Sasha Levin To: Krzysztof =?utf-8?Q?Ol=C4=99dzki?= Cc: Mika Westerberg , gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Adding iTCO_wdt fixes into 4.9-stable? Message-ID: <20181123192631.GG1917@sasha-vm> References: <34c83ce4-b3ec-1cbf-db96-ad25ceabddd6@ans.pl> <20181119103125.GM4179@lahna.fi.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 08:32:03AM -0800, Krzysztof Olędzki wrote: >+cc stable@vger.kernel.org > >W dniu 2018-11-19 o 02:31, Mika Westerberg pisze: >>On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 07:13:18PM -0800, Krzysztof Olędzki wrote: >>>Hello Mika, Rafael, Greg, >> >>Hi, >> >>>Would it be possible to include the following two patches in 4.9-stable: >>> - "ACPI / watchdog: Prefer iTCO_wdt on Lenovo Z50-70" >>> - "ACPI / watchdog: Prefer iTCO_wdt always when WDAT table uses RTC SRAM" >>> >>>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a0a37862a4e1844793d39aca9ccb8fecbdcb8659 >>>https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5a802a7a285c8877ca872e44eeb0f06afcb5212f >>> >>>Context: I just upgrade one of my servers from 4.4.161 to 4.9.137 and >>>run into a problem of not working RTC and watchdog. Adding these two >>>patches fixed the issue. No changes were necessary for them to be applied. >> >>I think the best way to get these included in stable trees is to send >>the commit ids with the above explanation to stable@vger.kernel.org. > >Thank you Mika! I forgot how the process works. :/ > >The commits are: > a0a37862a4e1844793d39aca9ccb8fecbdcb8659 > 5a802a7a285c8877ca872e44eeb0f06afcb5212f > >It also looks like the first patch is already in 4.14-stable, just not >in 4.9. > - a0a37862a4e1844793d39aca9ccb8fecbdcb8659 was included in 4.14.51: >https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.51 > >However, it does not look like the 2nd one has been included in 4.14 >yet. Would it be then possible to add >5a802a7a285c8877ca872e44eeb0f06afcb5212f to both 4.9-stable and >4.14-stable? > >The impacted system is: > Dell Inc. PowerEdge T110 II/0PM2CW, BIOS 2.10.0 05/24/2018 > >Krzysztof Okay, I've queued the second commit to 4.14, and both to 4.9. What about older stable kernels? -- Thanks, Sasha