Disposition of 'UBUNTU: SAUCE: powerpc/eeh: Validate arch in eeh_add_device_early()'

[Tim Gardner]

On 05/13/2016 07:30 AM, Guilherme G. Piccoli wrote:
> On 05/12/2016 05:26 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> What is the upstream progress of this patch ? I'm not seeing any signs
>> of it in linux-next either.
>>
>> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/rtg/ubuntu-unstable.git/commit/?h=SAUCE&id=28cb6ee7bbd0e127603673bc96d1048381a8b3e7
>>
>>
>>
>> rtg
> 
> Hi Tim, this patch was 'evolved' in 2 patches, which were coincidentally
> merged yesterday in powerpc next (they'll be released in upstream kernel
> 4.7).
> 
> The idea is to remove this SAUCE patch and add both patches below:
> 
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?id=c2078d9ef600bdbe568c89e5dd
> 
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?id=8445a87f7092bc8336ea1305be
> 
> 
> 
> I guess they need to be added on kernels 4.2 (Ubuntu 15.10) and 4.4
> (Ubuntu 16.04), and in all newer kernels from now on. Do you think it's
> possible? I'm not sure the official procedures to this request, I
> believe Breno can help us on this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 
> Guilherme
> 

I've dropped the SAUCE patch and cherry-picked the other 2 from
linux-next. They should fall away during the 4.7 development cycle.

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com