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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:33:16 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.18 0000/1624] 6.18.40-rc2 review
Cc: <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, <achill@achill.org>,
 <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, <broonie@kernel.org>, <conor@kernel.org>,
 <f.fainelli@gmail.com>, <hargar@microsoft.com>, <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
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To: "Miguel Ojeda" <ojeda@kernel.org>
From: "Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>
References: <20260722142910.893804136@linuxfoundation.org>
 <20260723154303.11008-1-ojeda@kernel.org>
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On Thu Jul 23, 2026 at 5:43 PM CEST, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> I suggest dropping commit
>
>   d8fa174e21c8 ("gpu: nova-core: vbios: read BitToken using FromBytes")
>
> for now -- it was not marked for stable, and as far as I know, there are
> no production users of Nova, especially in stable kernels.

Yes, we can just drop the commit. In general, for now we should only backpo=
rt
nova patches that could get into the way of testing stable releases in one =
or
the other way.

> If we want to fix the bug, then we may want a custom minimal patch.

Yeah, I don't think there's much value; in the best case it fixes something=
 that
isn't used in production anyways, and in the worst case it causes noise if =
it
breaks the build.

> I hope that helps!

Thanks!