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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Icenowy Zheng <uwu@icenowy.me>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>,
	robh+dt@kernel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org,
	wens@csie.org, samuel@sholland.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 8/9] arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: Add USB nodes
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:09:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y6W2lp36Kog68Z98@sashalap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <671ce02325703fa3e4969ba66e014001e6b83314.camel@icenowy.me>

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 02:48:29PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>在 2022-12-20星期二的 00:01 +0000，Andre Przywara写道：
>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:09:35 -0500
>> Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
>> >
>> > [ Upstream commit f40cf244c3feb4e1a442f8029b691add2c65b3ab ]
>>
>> This is not really a backport candidate:
>> - This is not a fix, but a new feature.
>> - This relies on the H616 USB PHY support patch, which will be only
>> in
>>   v6.2 (and won't be backported).

I'll go ahead and drop it.

>> - DT backports are generally not useful to begin with, and should
>>   actually not be necessary anyway.
>
>DT changes include fixes and new features. New features are not useful,
>but fixes are useful.
>
>This specific change is a new feature one, not a fix one though.

Right - this is a similar issue to PCI/USB/etc IDs, or quirks - we try
and backport patches that enable new hardware to work (proerly) with
drivers that already exist in the kernel.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Icenowy Zheng <uwu@icenowy.me>
Cc: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@gmail.com>,
	robh+dt@kernel.org, krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro.org,
	wens@csie.org, samuel@sholland.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 8/9] arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: Add USB nodes
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:09:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y6W2lp36Kog68Z98@sashalap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <671ce02325703fa3e4969ba66e014001e6b83314.camel@icenowy.me>

On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 02:48:29PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>在 2022-12-20星期二的 00:01 +0000，Andre Przywara写道：
>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:09:35 -0500
>> Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
>> >
>> > [ Upstream commit f40cf244c3feb4e1a442f8029b691add2c65b3ab ]
>>
>> This is not really a backport candidate:
>> - This is not a fix, but a new feature.
>> - This relies on the H616 USB PHY support patch, which will be only
>> in
>>   v6.2 (and won't be backported).

I'll go ahead and drop it.

>> - DT backports are generally not useful to begin with, and should
>>   actually not be necessary anyway.
>
>DT changes include fixes and new features. New features are not useful,
>but fixes are useful.
>
>This specific change is a new feature one, not a fix one though.

Right - this is a similar issue to PCI/USB/etc IDs, or quirks - we try
and backport patches that enable new hardware to work (proerly) with
drivers that already exist in the kernel.

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-23 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-17  0:09 [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 1/9] rcu: Fix __this_cpu_read() lockdep warning in rcu_force_quiescent_state() Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 2/9] arm64: make is_ttbrX_addr() noinstr-safe Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09   ` Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 3/9] ARM: dts: aspeed: rainier,everest: Move reserved memory regions Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09   ` Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09   ` Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 4/9] video: hyperv_fb: Avoid taking busy spinlock on panic path Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09   ` Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 5/9] x86/hyperv: Remove unregister syscore call from Hyper-V cleanup Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 6/9] binfmt_misc: fix shift-out-of-bounds in check_special_flags Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 7/9] arm64: dts: qcom: sm8450: disable SDHCI SDR104/SDR50 on all boards Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 8/9] arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: Add USB nodes Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09   ` Sasha Levin
2022-12-20  0:01   ` Andre Przywara
2022-12-20  0:01     ` Andre Przywara
2022-12-20  6:48     ` Icenowy Zheng
2022-12-20  6:48       ` Icenowy Zheng
2022-12-23 14:09       ` Sasha Levin [this message]
2022-12-23 14:09         ` Sasha Levin
2022-12-17  0:09 ` [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 9/9] arm64: dts: qcom: sm6350: Add apps_smmu with streamID to SDHCI 1/2 nodes Sasha Levin

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