Hello Debian Kernel Team, I just submitted this bug to Debian via reportbug. It looks like the linux-4.9 package doesn't have a maintainer, so I'm forwarding the bug in the hope that someone will see it.
Regards, Matt On Sat, 25 May 2019 14:58:33 -0500 Matt Sickler <matt.sick...@daktronics.com> wrote: > Source: linux-4.9 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > We have a system that uses the n25q256a11 SPI flash device which is not > marked as supported in the 4.9 kernel series. > This is the same problem as I had in deb bug #843650. In that bug report I > stated that the patch wasn't necessary as it was added upstream in 4.7. > That is incorrect, I'm not sure what I was thinking back then. > It *was* added upstream for 4.12 as seen in commit 835ed7bf12609c [1]. > Anyway, we're thinking of using the backported linux-4.9 with Jessie for a > little while, and I'd like to avoid having to keep patching the packages > myself. > > [1] > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/835ed7bf12609ce23d42956e74206cc539a0ce5f > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 8.11 > APT prefers oldstable > APT policy: (500, 'oldstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-0.bpo.9-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
