Re: [PATCH 4.13 20/27] Revert "firmware: add sanity check on shutdown/suspend"

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Tue Sep 12 2017 - 21:25:13 EST


On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 05:47:58PM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 07:20:08PM +0200, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 10:00:00AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > 4.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > commit f007cad159e99fa2acd3b2e9364fbb32ad28b971 upstream.
> > >
> > > This reverts commit 81f95076281fdd3bc382e004ba1bce8e82fccbce.
> >
> > I'm not convinced reverting this commit is the right thing to do at
> > this point given it would seem other errors were happening prior to
> > v4.13 and this commit would rather just bring to light the core of
> > the issue which needs to be addressed.
>
> Given that this fixes a reported regression, yes, it is the right thing
> to do.

Once 06a45a93e7d34a is also reverted I believe it may be revealed this was
not a regression after all.

> > If reverting this commit please consider reverting also commit
> > 06a45a93e7d34a ("firmware: move umh try locks into the umh code").
>
> Ok, I can queue that revert up in my tree and will send it to Linus once
> 4.14-rc1 is out.

But lets find out.

Luis