On Fri, May 20, 2022 at 02:05:15PM -0500, Glenn Washburn wrote:
Resending this because stable@vger.kernel.org using wrong header field. Apologize for duplicates.
On Thu, 19 May 2022 09:52:07 -0400 Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org wrote:
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
um: port_user: Improve error handling when port-helper is not foundto the 5.17-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: um-port_user-improve-error-handling-when-port-helper.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.17 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
First, I should say that I'm not familiar with the process so I'm likely to be wrong on any number of things. Second I'm the author of this patch and I would like to see this included in the stable trees. However, it appears to me that there is a problem in including just this patch, as it depends on a previous patch which does not appear to be applied[1].
Right, I've dropped it.
The the afore mentioned patch that this patch depends on "env" is declared and set. Without it, I'd expect this to fail to compile. As such, I may be wrong in that the dependent patch was not already included because I'd expect there to have been a compile test prior to this patch getting to this phase.
My suspicion is that the stable trees try to not include new functionality, which the missing patch may have been considered to have done, and thus was not included. If its deemed undesirable to include the missing patch, this "if" block can be removed. Although, I think the missing patch is valuable enough to include.
The above goes for all the stable branches that this patch is set to be included in.
Could you provide a list of patches that are needed here?