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Date:   Fri, 22 Jan 2021 09:37:58 -0500
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 16:55:29 +0530
Gaurav Kohli <gkohli@codeaurora.org> wrote:

> >> That could possibly work.  
> 
> Yes, this will work, As i have tested similar patch for internal testing 
> for kernel branches like 5.4/4.19.

Can you or Denis send a proper patch for Greg to backport? I'll review it,
test it and give my ack to it, so Greg can take it without issue.

Thanks!

-- Steve


> 
> > 
> > Ok, so what can I do here?  Can someone resend this as a backport to the
> > other stable kernels in this way so that I can queue it up?
> >