From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] staging: gigaset: fix general protection fault on probe
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2019 13:41:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191201124156.GA3836284@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7cfa2ada-d1ea-aafe-6ac1-f407e3bd558d@imap.cc>
On Sun, Dec 01, 2019 at 01:30:42PM +0100, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Johan,
>
> this is probably caused by the move of the driver to staging in
> kernel release 5.3 half a year ago. If you want your patches to
> apply to pre-5.3 stable releases you'll have to submit a version
> with the paths changed from drivers/staging/isdn/gigaset to
> drivers/isdn/gigaset.
That's trivial for me to do when they get added to the stable tree(s),
no need to worry about it.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-01 12:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20191129101753.9721-1-johan@kernel.org>
2019-11-29 10:17 ` [PATCH 1/4] staging: gigaset: fix general protection fault on probe Johan Hovold
[not found] ` <20191201001505.964E72075A@mail.kernel.org>
2019-12-01 12:30 ` Tilman Schmidt
2019-12-01 12:41 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-12-01 13:04 ` Johan Hovold
2019-11-29 10:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] staging: gigaset: fix illegal free on probe errors Johan Hovold
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