Re: [PATCH] wcn36xx: Close SMD channel on device removal

From	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] wcn36xx: Close SMD channel on device removal
Date	2017-05-11 14:20 +0200
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Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> writes:

> On Wed 10 May 00:27 PDT 2017, Arend van Spriel wrote:
>
>> On 5/10/2017 1:03 AM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
>>
>> > AFAICT this never worked, as it seems I did the rework in SMD while we
>> > tried to figure out the dependency issues we had with moving to SMD. So
>> > v4.9 through v4.11 has SMD support - with this bug.
>> > 
>> > How do I proceed, do you want me to write up a fix for stable@? Do I
>> > send that out as an ordinary patch?
>> 
>> If the patch applies cleanly on branches linux-4.9.y through linux-4.11.y in
>> the stable repository you can go for '--- Option 1 ---' as described in
>> <linux-repo>/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
>> 
>
> It does not, before v4.12 it's a completely different function to call
> to close the channel.
>
> But "Option 3" describes the situation, thanks for the reference. I'll
> try to find the time to verify the patch on v4.11 and send it to
> stable@.

Great, thanks. This seems to be that serious that better to fix this
also in older releases.

-- 
Kalle Valo

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[PATCH] wcn36xx: Close SMD channel on device removal Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2017-05-09 06:40 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] wcn36xx: Close SMD channel on device removal Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-05-09 08:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] wcn36xx: Close SMD channel on device removal Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2017-05-10 01:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] wcn36xx: Close SMD channel on device removal Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> - 2017-05-10 09:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] wcn36xx: Close SMD channel on device removal Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org> - 2017-05-10 20:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] wcn36xx: Close SMD channel on device removal Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2017-05-11 14:20 +0200

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