Re: Request to cherry picking a patch to fix bug #989705 for kernels 5.10.y

From	Computer Enthusiastic <computer.enthusiastic@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Re: Request to cherry picking a patch to fix bug #989705 for kernels 5.10.y
Date	2023-02-05 18:20 +0100
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Hello Diederik,

On 27/01/2023 22:35, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> On Friday, 27 January 2023 21:05:47 CET Computer Enthusiastic wrote:
>> This patch [2] applies to kernel version 5.10.y, too. I used it with a
>> custom built kernel since it was published .
>>
>> The author of the patch acknowledged that the patch applies to kernel
>> version 5.10.y asking me to send it out to the stable mailing list. I
>> did it, but I did not receive an answer. I tried to peek upstream, but
>> again no answer.
> 
> I noticed in [2] this: "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.15+"
> 
> The post on marc.info (try to use lore.kernel.org links as that works easier
> for most people) seems to be posted to the 'linux-kernel' list, which I
> *think* is not the same as 'stable@vger.kernel.org'.
> 
> So I would suggest to try again by sending it to stable.vger.k.o with explicit
> mention of kernel 5.10.
> GKH is a busy man so I recommend to take your time to construct an email which
> is as short as possible, but still contains all the info needed to evaluate
> the request.
> 
> I would recommend to mention the following things:
> 
> Commit ID in 5.15 = 3640cdccbe75b8922e5bfc0191dd37e3aaa24833
> 
> Link to post in which the patch author said they'd ACK it for 5.10:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/CACO55tv0jO2TmuWcwFiAUQB-__DZVwhv7WNN9MfgMXV053gknw@mail.gmail.com/
> 
> In your mail make sure the link doesn't break over 2 lines like it does above.
> 
> HTH,
>    Diederik
>> ---
>> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=989705
>> [2]
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?h
>> =v6.0-rc5&id=6b04ce966a738ecdd9294c9593e48513c0dc90aa
> 

Just a feedback.

Thanks for your tips.

Greg Kroah-Hartman backported the patch into Linux 5.10.166 [1].

Therefore it will hopefully land in the next Debian stable point release 
when it will be released.

I would like to thank Salvatore Bonaccorso who helped me to explain Greg 
the request for backporting the patch:

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[1] 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/?h=v5.10.166&id=8fe3e574b3ac426ff4a11299f098e1c91538f3e5

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Request to cherry picking a patch to fix bug #989705 for kernels  5.10.y Computer Enthusiastic <computer.enthusiastic@gmail.com> - 2023-01-27 21:10 +0100
    Re: Request to cherry picking a patch to fix bug #989705 for kernels 5.10.y Diederik de Haas <didi.debian@cknow.org> - 2023-01-27 22:40 +0100
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