Patch "MIPS: ip27: Disable qlge driver in defconfig" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

MIPS: ip27: Disable qlge driver in defconfig

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
mips-ip27-disable-qlge-driver-in-defconfig.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 17:43:50 +0100
Subject: MIPS: ip27: Disable qlge driver in defconfig

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>

commit b617649468390713db1515ea79fc772d2eb897a8 upstream.

One of the last remaining failures in kernelci.org is for a gcc bug:

drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c:4819:1: error: insn does not satisfy its constraints:
drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qlge/qlge_main.c:4819:1: internal compiler error: in extract_constrain_insn, at recog.c:2190

This is apparently broken in gcc-6 but fixed in gcc-7, and I cannot reproduce the problem here. However, it is clear that ip27_defconfig does not actually need this driver as the platform has only PCI-X but not PCIe, and the qlge adapter in turn is PCIe-only.

The driver was originally enabled in 2010 along with lots of other drivers.

Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/15197/

---
 arch/mips/configs/ip27_defconfig |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

@@ -206,7 +206,6 @@ CONFIG_MLX4_EN=m
 # CONFIG_MLX4_DEBUG is not set
 CONFIG_TEHUTI=m
 CONFIG_BNX2X=m
-CONFIG_QLGE=m
 CONFIG_SFC=m
 CONFIG_BE2NET=m
 CONFIG_LIBERTAS_THINFIRM=m

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/mips-ip27-disable-qlge-driver-in-defconfig.patch queue-4.4/mips-update-ip27_defconfig-for-scsi_dh-change.patch queue-4.4/mtd-pmcmsp-use-kstrndup-instead-of-kmalloc-strncpy.patch queue-4.4/cpmac-remove-hopeless-warning.patch queue-4.4/mm-memcontrol-avoid-unused-function-warning.patch queue-4.4/mips-ip22-fix-ip28-build-for-modern-gcc.patch queue-4.4/mips-update-lemote2f_defconfig-for-cpu_freq_stat-change.patch queue-4.4/crypto-improve-gcc-optimization-flags-for-serpent-and-wp512.patch queue-4.4/mips-ralink-remove-unused-rt-_wdt_reset-functions.patch queue-4.4/mips-ralink-remove-unused-timer-functions.patch queue-4.4/mips-update-defconfigs-for-nf_ct_proto_dccp-udplite-change.patch