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Date:   Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:01:46 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] w1: gpio: fix problem with platfom data in w1-gpio
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On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 11:47:25AM +0200, Paweł Dembicki wrote:
> 2018-03-17 12:55 GMT+01:00 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>:
> 
> > Where is this patch supposed to go?  Is this a stable backport patch, or
> > something to go into Linus's tree?
> 
> I tested it in 4.9 and 4.14 kernels in OpenERT. So it is a stable
> backport patch.

What commit is being backported.

> In current release this bug is fixed because w1-gpio use gpiod.

Then why can we not just use the actual patch that fixes this?

> Sorry. This was my first patch.

Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to submit a patch for the stable tree.

thanks,

greg k-h