WTF: patch "[PATCH] MIPS: BMIPS: Delete unused Kconfig symbol" was seriously submitted to be applied to the 4.1-stable tree?

The patch below was submitted to be applied to the 4.1-stable tree.

I fail to see how this patch meets the stable kernel rules as found at Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.

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: Kevin Cernekee <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:52:50 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: BMIPS: Delete unused Kconfig symbol

This was left over from an earlier iteration of the BMIPS irqchip changes. It doesn't actually have an effect, so let's nuke it.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/9910/

index cee5f93e5712..199a8357838c 100644
@@ -151,7 +151,6 @@ config BMIPS_GENERIC
 	select BCM7120_L2_IRQ
 	select BRCMSTB_L2_IRQ
 	select IRQ_MIPS_CPU
-	select RAW_IRQ_ACCESSORS
 	select DMA_NONCOHERENT
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_32BIT_KERNEL
 	select SYS_SUPPORTS_LITTLE_ENDIAN