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On 26/02/21 13:59, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> So can you please add this patch to the stable trees that backported the
>>> problematic upstream commit 6441fa6178f5456d1d4b512c08798888f99db185 ?
>>>
>>> If I should submit this in any other way just ask, was not sure about
>>> what works best with a patch which cannot be cherry-picked cleanly.
>>
>> Ok, I'll submit it.
>>
>> Thanks for the testing.
> 
> Does that mean I should not take the patch here in this email and that
> you will submit it after some timeperiod, or that I should take this
> patch as-is?

The patch that Thomas requested (commit 841c2be09fe) does not apply 
cleanly, so I'll take care of sending the backport.

Paolo