Re: Several MFD patches for stable

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Jan 03 2012 - 11:21:18 EST


On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 04:35:31PM +0200, Igor Grinberg wrote:
> Hi Greg, Chris,
>
> I've found several MFD patches that I think should have been
> applied also to stable, but they hadn't been applied
> (probably because nobody cared to send them to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx).
>
> The patches are upstream:
> e178ccb33569da17dc897a08a3865441b813bdfb (mfd: Fix mismatch in twl4030 mutex lock-unlock)
> 66cc5b8e50af87b0bbd0f179d76d2826f4549c13 (mfd: Copy the device pointer to the twl4030-madc structure)
> d0e84caeb4cd535923884735906e5730329505b4 (mfd: Check for twl4030-madc NULL pointer)
> 3d6271f92e98094584fd1e609a9969cd33e61122 (mfd: Turn on the twl4030-madc MADC clock)
>
> I don't know what is right flow that I should follow
> to get those into the stable tree.

Read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this (hint, you
did it properly, with a only few minor things missed.)

What kernel version(s) do you want these applied to? What order should
they be applied in?

thanks,

greg k-h
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