Re: [PATCH stable 4.9 00/21] Unbreak 32-bit DVB applications on 64-bit kernels

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jun 24 2020 - 12:03:45 EST


On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 08:41:06AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
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> On 6/23/2020 12:13 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 09:24:57AM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> This long patch series was motivated by backporting Jaedon's changes
> >> which add a proper ioctl compatibility layer for 32-bit applications
> >> running on 64-bit kernels. We have a number of Android TV-based products
> >> currently running on the 4.9 kernel and this was broken for them.
> >>
> >> Thanks to Robert McConnell for identifying and providing the patches in
> >> their initial format.
> >>
> >> In order for Jaedon's patches to apply cleanly a number of changes were
> >> applied to support those changes. If you deem the patch series too big
> >> please let me know.
> >
> > Now queued up,t hanks.
>
> Thanks a lot, I did not get an email about "[PATCH stable 4.9 02/21]
> media: dvb_frontend: initialize variable s with FE_NONE instead of 0"
> being applied, not that it is a very important change,

That should be there, I merged it before I did the whole long series and
realised I should just automate it, sorry about that.

thanks,

greg k-h