On Thu, 18 Oct 2018 11:23:12 PDT (-0700), merker@debian.org wrote:

On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 11:13:02AM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

RISC-V: include linux/ftrace.h in asm-prototypes.h

to the 4.4-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: risc-v-include-linux-ftrace.h-in-asm-prototypes.h.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 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.

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From: James Cowgill jcowgill@debian.org Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2018 22:57:56 +0100 Subject: RISC-V: include linux/ftrace.h in asm-prototypes.h

From: James Cowgill jcowgill@debian.org

[ Upstream commit 57a489786de9ec37d6e25ef1305dc337047f0236 ]

I guess it doesn't make much sense to add this patch to the 4.4 and 3.18 stable trees. The patch creates an arch-specific header (arch/riscv/include/asm/asm-prototypes.h), but the first mainline kernel with support for the RISC-V architecture has been kernel 4.15.

I agree.