Re: [PATCH 5.8 050/124] drm/vmwgfx: Fix error handling in get_node

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 05:55:31PM +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this commit should NOT be applied to 5.8.
> It fixes a regression introduced by
> 58e4d686d456c3e356439ae160ff4a0728940b8e (drm/ttm: cleanup
> ttm_mem_type_manager_func.get_node interface v3) which is part of 5.9
> but not 5.8.
> Applying this to 5.8 will very likely break things. I don't know why it
> ended up as a candidate for 5.8.

Now dropped, thanks.  And it was probably picked up due to the wording
in the changelog text, along with a lack of a "Fixes:" tag that pointed
at the exact change it fixed up, which would have shown that this is a
5.9-only thing.

thanks,

greg k-h