Re: [PATCH 00/69] "Revert and fix properly" patch series based on umn.edu re-review

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu May 13 2021 - 12:59:42 EST


On Mon, May 03, 2021 at 01:56:27PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> [individuals put on bcc: due to quantity would have been rejected by vger]
>
> Here is the "final" set of reverts and fixes based on the re-review of
> all accepted umn.edu commits. It consists of 7 "clean" reverts that do
> not need to be fixed up again for various reasons (see the commit
> messages for reasoning), and then 31 sets of "revert & fix" commits that
> consist of reverting the offending commit and then fixing it up
> properly.
>
> Where these patches were accepted into stable kernels, I've properly
> tagged them for reverting in the stable kernels automatically as well.
>
> I'll be taking these through one of my trees, so there's no need for any
> maintainer to have to worry about these needing to go through theirs.

These are now merged (minus the ones people asked me to drop) to my
char-misc tree.

thanks,

greg k-h