From: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To: "Vaittinen, Matti" <Matti.Vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com>
Cc: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"mazziesaccount@gmail.com" <mazziesaccount@gmail.com>,
"sashal@kernel.org" <sashal@kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com" <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mfd: bd70528: Fix hour register mask
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 10:10:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200117101009.GC15507@dell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b5835b0fe842a01888d66c07281e13fc64c2c9ef.camel@fi.rohmeurope.com>
On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Vaittinen, Matti wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 08:57 +0100, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 07:44:07AM +0000, Vaittinen, Matti wrote:
> > >
> > > Is it possible to get this in 5.4 stable - while leaving this out
> > > of
> > > current MFD tree and applying the BD71828 series to MFD?
> >
> > We only take patches that are in Linus's tree for the stable tree,
> > unless there are very big reasons not to do so (i.e. it is totally
> > rewritten in a different way there.)
> >
> > Once the change/fix is in Linus's tree, then you can backport it to
> > stable in a different way if you want, but you need to give lots of
> > reasons why it is done that way.
>
> Right. Thanks for the explanation Greg. I have no _strong_ reasons -
> which means I'll split the RTC support patch in BD71828 series into two
> - first of the patches being this fix, second being the BD71828
> support. Then this fix can be taken in 5.4 after it has been merged to
> Linus' tree - the BD71828 support can be omitted from 5.4
>
> I hope the BD71828 series could still make it to next release - but if
> it wont, then it might be in next after that :]
>
> Lee, please skip this one, I'll do v10 of the BD71828 series where this
> fix is included as separate fix-patch.
Will look out for it.
--
Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-17 10:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-15 8:29 [PATCH] mfd: bd70528: Fix hour register mask Matti Vaittinen
2020-01-17 7:44 ` Vaittinen, Matti
2020-01-17 7:57 ` gregkh
2020-01-17 8:06 ` Vaittinen, Matti
2020-01-17 10:10 ` Lee Jones [this message]
2020-01-17 10:11 ` Vaittinen, Matti
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