Re: Patch "watchdog: s3c2410_wdt: use exynos_get_pmu_regmap_by_phandle() for PMU regs" has been added to the 6.6-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2025 at 04:46:54PM +0000, Peter Griffin wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
> 
> + cc stable@vger.kernel.org
> 
> On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 at 00:45, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> >
> >     watchdog: s3c2410_wdt: use exynos_get_pmu_regmap_by_phandle() for PMU regs
> >
> > to the 6.6-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:
> >      watchdog-s3c2410_wdt-use-exynos_get_pmu_regmap_by_ph.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
> >
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> 
> It doesn't make sense (to me at least) to add this patch and then also
> add the revert of it to v6.6 stable tree, as it becomes a no-op. The
> only reason I can think of is it somehow helps with your automated
> tooling?

This is exactly the reason.

> Additionally the hardware (Pixel 6 & gs101 SoC ) which these patches
> and APIs were added for wasn't merged until v6.8. The revert is also
> only applicable if the kernel has the corresponding enhancements made
> to syscon driver to register custom regmaps. See 769cb63166d9 ("mfd:
> syscon: Add of_syscon_register_regmap() API")

Ok, then we should just drop both, I can do that if you want me to.

thanks,

greg k-h