On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 06:21:23PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:38:08 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> > 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 3.3-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <[email protected]>.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> > 
> > From 855cc454341c6ca1212bf86939f2f2a51ab54e18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
> > Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 17:54:23 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] mfd: Fix ACPI conflict check
> > (...)
> 
> Hmm, this is very strange.
> 
> $ git name-rev 855cc454341c6ca1212bf86939f2f2a51ab54e18
> 855cc454341c6ca1212bf86939f2f2a51ab54e18 master~17^2~56
> 
> This would suggest that the fix was committed after v3.3, as this is
> the last tag that was created by Linus. However this is not true, if
> you download linux-3.3.tar.xz, you'll see the fix is present in this
> version already.
> 
> Also, the fix has already been backported to 3.2 and 3.0 stable kernel
> series (in 3.2.10 and 3.0.24, respectively) so there is no reason to do
> that again.
> 
> I have no idea how this is possible at all, sorry.

Ah, it looks like it went in as commit
81b5482c32769abb6dfb979560dab2f952ba86fa which showed up in 3.3-rc7, and
then came in again through some other tree after 3.3 was out, and I saw
that one now.

No worries, this happens at times.

thanks for looking into it.

greg k-h
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