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From: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>, <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/APM: drop the duplicate APM_MINOR_DEV macro
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2023 15:05:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ba4a23c-3b4b-eb7f-0ecb-3b7bf5c4406e@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <772ac95d-9eab-2090-245e-fcc40bd7a5da@infradead.org>

On 7/27/2023 2:21 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On 7/27/23 13:06, Sohil Mehta wrote:
>> I am not sure if a Fixes tag is really needed for a redundant macro
>> definition. If at all, shouldn't it be 874bcd00f520c ("apm-emulation:
>> move APM_MINOR_DEV to include/linux/miscdevice.h") ?
> 
> I don't see any need for this patch to be backported.
> 
> Should it be commit 874bcd00f520c?  Maybe. That one certainly
> missed moving this macro.
> 

Also, applying this patch anytime before 874bcd00f520c will cause a
compilation issue unless 874bcd00f520c is applied as well.

-Sohil


  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-27 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-26 23:49 Randy Dunlap
2023-07-27 20:06 ` Sohil Mehta
2023-07-27 21:21   ` Randy Dunlap
2023-07-27 22:05     ` Sohil Mehta [this message]
2023-07-27 22:41       ` Randy Dunlap
2023-07-28  0:58         ` Randy Dunlap

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