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RE: [char-msic 1/3] mei: me: disable driver on SPT SPS firmware

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> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 02:44:44PM +0200, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > commit 8c57cac1457f3125a5d13dc03635c0708c61bff0 upstream
> >
> > Sunrise Point PCH with SPS Firmware doesn't expose working MEI
> > interface, we need to quirk it out.
> > The SPS Firmware is identifiable only on the first PCI function of the
> > device.
> >
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #4.4
> > Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > ---
> >  drivers/misc/mei/hw-me.c  | 10 ++++++++--  drivers/misc/mei/pci-me.c
> > |  4 ++--
> >  2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> I don't understand what this is for, it's already in the 4.8-stable tree.  And there
> you said it only needed to go to 4.6 and newer, yet you are saying 4.4 here?
> What am I supposed to do?
> 

It's needed 4.4, but the original patch does apply cleanly only from 4.6 up, so this is the rebased version over 4.4. Since 4.4 is a long term kernel this is important.
I  see from time to time broken patches in stable,  mostly in 3.X series, so I prefer to do the back port myself. 

Thanks
Tomas

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[char-msic 1/3] mei: me: disable driver on SPT SPS firmware Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-11-29 12:50 +0100
  Re: [char-msic 1/3] mei: me: disable driver on SPT SPS firmware Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-11-29 20:20 +0100
    RE: [char-msic 1/3] mei: me: disable driver on SPT SPS firmware "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-11-29 20:30 +0100
      Re: [char-msic 1/3] mei: me: disable driver on SPT SPS firmware Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-11-29 22:40 +0100
        RE: [char-msic 1/3] mei: me: disable driver on SPT SPS firmware "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-11-29 22:50 +0100
          Re: [char-msic 1/3] mei: me: disable driver on SPT SPS firmware Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-11-30 10:30 +0100
            RE: [char-msic 1/3] mei: me: disable driver on SPT SPS firmware "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@intel.com> - 2016-11-30 10:50 +0100

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