Re: [PATCH] clk: Add missing header for 'bool' definition to clk-conf.h

From: Michal Kubecek
Date: Tue Aug 25 2015 - 02:59:42 EST


On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:55:28AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 5:28 AM, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 08/18, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> >> of_clk_set_defaults uses the type 'bool', but clk-conf.h does not
> >> include its definition.
> >>
> >> This results in a compile error when only clk-conf.h is used.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxx>
> >> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Why is stable Cc-ed? Is there some sort of compilation failure on
> > stable kernels?
>
> There isn't for now. Though I don't see why we shouldn't fix this for
> stable kernels as well. It's possible other people or third-party
> vendors working with stable/LTS kernels (Android?) may run into it.

How about

- It must fix a real bug that bothers people (not a, "This could be a
problem..." type thing).

in Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt?

Michal Kubecek
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