WTF: patch "[PATCH] MIPS: pci: Remove KERN_WARN instance inside the mt7620 driver" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.14-stable tree?

The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.14-stable tree.

I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst.

I could be totally wrong, and if so, please respond to <[email protected]> and let me know why this patch should be applied. Otherwise, it is now dropped from my patch queues, never to be seen again.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From: John Crispin <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:29:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: pci: Remove KERN_WARN instance inside the mt7620 driver

Switch the printk() call to the prefered pr_warn() api.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15321/

index 22e4c22e750b..1a0b80a1cc4a 100644
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ static int wait_pciephy_busy(void)
 		else
 			break;
 		if (retry++ > WAITRETRY_MAX) {
-			printk(KERN_WARN "PCIE-PHY retry failed.\n");
+			pr_warn("PCIE-PHY retry failed.\n");
 			return -1;
 		}
 	}