Re: [PATCH 00/78] Patch Round-up for stable 4.2.1, freeze on 2020-06-22

[Michael Roth]

Quoting Finn Thain (2020-06-19 22:39:41)
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2020, Finn Thain wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Thanks for picking these fixes. When the maintainer originally merged this 
> > series of patches, the first patch got slightly damaged. This was remedied 
> > in a subsequent patch[1]. That is, mainline commit a0cf4297d6 ("dp8393x: 
> > Mask EOL bit from descriptor addresses, take 2"). Would you also pick that 
> > commit for v4.2.1 please?
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/23179263-a8fb-57cc-e98a-bfe9a2ee9037@vivier.eu/
> > 
> 
> While we're on the subject of cherry-picking fixes for fixes, you may also 
> want to consider c264e5d2f9f5d73977eac8e5d084f727b3d07ea9. I didn't find 
> any fixes for fixes for fixes. That search probably needs to be 
> automated...

Thanks for the catch/suggestion. I've added a script to the process to help
find follow-up fixes, but it still needs to be run manually. Some sort of git
integration would probably be a good next step.