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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Thor Thayer <thor.thayer@linux.intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, mchehab@kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com,
	james.morse@arm.com, rrichter@marvell.com,
	linux-edac@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Meng Li <Meng.Li@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC/altera: Use fast register IO for S10 IRQs
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:13:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191120191335.GL2634@zn.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bfe9cc4-6cd4-7edb-9ed2-abe5fadff06d@linux.intel.com>

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:52:18PM -0600, Thor Thayer wrote:
> This patch should to be applied to the stable branches to fix the issue in
> older branches.

Do stable folks pick up stable fixes which are not upstream?

AFAIK, a patch needs to be upstream to be backported to stable first.

> Although I knew the To: had to be to stable@vger.kernel.org,
> I wasn't sure how that worked with the EDAC reviewers. This was a weird
> situation where I couldn't fix the upstream because it had already been
> fixed a different way.

Yah.

> Meng sent me the notification and the patch with a SOB so I put Meng first
> in the order.

If he sent you the patch, then he's the author and you need to keep his

From: Meng Li <Meng.Li@windriver.com>

at the beginning of the file so that git preserves his authorship.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette

  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-20 19:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-20 17:38 [PATCH] EDAC/altera: Use fast register IO for S10 IRQs thor.thayer
2019-11-20 18:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2019-11-20 18:52   ` Thor Thayer
2019-11-20 19:13     ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2019-11-20 19:28       ` Greg KH

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