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From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 18:31:54 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Reporting reasons why driver
 prematurely exit
To:     Erwan Velu <e.velu@criteo.com>
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 5:42 PM Erwan Velu <e.velu@criteo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Le 14/02/2019 à 11:22, Rafael J. Wysocki a écrit :
> > I've queued it up with some manual changes.  No need to update.
>
> As this could help troubleshooting platforms and as some commits like
> the PSS one on Proliant servers were backported to stable, I would
> surely make sense to backport it to the other stable.
>
> I know this is only a trivial print patch but as my initial issue
> started with some of the 4.14 serie, it could be nice to have it too.

You can always request -stable to pick up a patch once it's got to the mainline.

I'm not going to mark it as -stable material, though, as it is not a
fix strictly speaking.