On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 12:12:53PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 10:06:05 +0100 Helge Deller deller@gmx.de wrote:
How should we proceed with this patch?
My suggestion, although I didn't looked too much on it: Apply it to v4.9 and higher only. I think I started fixing trace functionality on parisc around 4.6, which is probably why applying it fails on v4.4 and v3.x
The problem is, if you backport the generic patches, it will completely break any arch that isn't updated. This also includes the archs that are no longer supported upstream, as they were not changed to handle the generic updates either.
Does this mean that someone (Steve) will send a backport of this to all relevant stable trees? Right now it looks like the series will randomly apply on a mix of trees, which can't be good.
-- Thanks, Sasha