<div dir="ltr">Does the patch cause any harm when used on newer kernel?<div><br></div><div>If so shouldn't the patch be fixed to work correctly even with newer kernel?</div><div><br></div><div>Or what's the main reason to remove it?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Mark Hatle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.hatle@windriver.com" target="_blank">mark.hatle@windriver.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 8/25/17 1:48 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Jose Alarcon <<a href="mailto:jose.alarcon@ge.com">jose.alarcon@ge.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> On <a href="tel:24.08.2017%2020" value="+12408201720">24.08.2017 20</a>:45, Andre McCurdy wrote:<br>
>>> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Jose Alarcon <<a href="mailto:jose.alarcon@ge.com">jose.alarcon@ge.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>> This patch was a temporal workaround needed with 4.1 kernels.<br>
>>>> Remove it.<br>
>>> OLDEST_KERNEL is still set to 3.2.0<br>
>>><br>
>>> How can you be sure nobody is using 4.1 ?<br>
>><br>
>> That's a good point!<br>
>><br>
>> I didn't know about this variable. I believe we should not integrate<br>
>> this change.<br>
>> I will resend it once OLDEST_KERNEL is set to 4.2 or bigger.<br>
><br>
> The original patch has been merged to master so a second patch will be<br>
> needed to revert it.<br>
><br>
<br>
</span>It may make sense to selectively apply the patch based on what OLDEST_KERNEL is<br>
set to.<br>
<br>
This way if a user or distribution sets a newer 'OLDEST_KERNEL', that item can<br>
be removed automatically.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--Mark<br>
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