[PULL][Bionic] Replace LPC patchset with upstream version

dann frazier dann.frazier at canonical.com
Tue Apr 10 15:02:01 UTC 2018


On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 8:41 AM, Seth Forshee
<seth.forshee at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 09, 2018 at 04:25:38PM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
>> The LPC patchset for HiSilicon boards landed upstream in the v4.17
>> merge window. We're currently carrying an earlier version (v14) of the
>> patches as SAUCE, while v17 + a bug fix is what was eventually merged.
>>
>> There is at least one notable bug fix in the upstream version (a
>> Coverity-discovered dereference-before-null-check), along with quite a
>> bit of coding style clean-up. Replacing our patches w/ upstream
>> cherry-picks will increase the odds that future upstream bug fixes
>> will apply cleanly. Let's fix that bug and reduce our technical debt
>> by syncing with the upstream patches.
>>
>> The following changes since commit e11f6df5108b12a63480686da6428e3fe1d9ccfa:
>>
>>   cxl: Check if PSL data-cache is available before issue flush request (2018-04-09 11:40:29 -0300)
>>
>> are available in the Git repository at:
>>
>>   git://git.launchpad.net/~dannf/ubuntu/+source/linux/+git/linux upstream-lpc-bionic
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to 580316d23432995530f57e90210d418b96d72179:
>>
>>   MAINTAINERS: Add John Garry as maintainer for HiSilicon LPC driver (2018-04-09 16:06:33 -0600)
>
> The changes themselves look good, but let's not reuse the old bug
> number. Can you open a new bug for updating the patches and change the
> buglinks?  Thanks!

You bet - I'll send a v2 PULL when done.




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