From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
Cc: "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
"Marek Behún" <kabel@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Backporting armada-3700-rwtm-firmware DTS changes to stable kernel
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 09:54:21 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPgnDbYZ5ynFLLxD@sashalap> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210721132156.qsgodbs53glltijh@pali>
On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 03:21:56PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
>On Tuesday 20 July 2021 19:03:49 Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:25:59AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
>> > Hello Greg & Sasha, I would like to ask you for your opinion about
>> > backporting DTS patches to stable kernel which allows usage of hwrng on
>> > Marvell Armada 3700 devices.
>> >
>> > Driver is already part of 5.4 kernel, just DTS bindings are not there.
>> > I do not know if such backport is suitable for stable kernels. In file
>> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
>> > is written that "New device IDs and quirks are also accepted" where
>> > "device id" could mean also small DTS change...
>>
>> We could, that's how I've been parsing that rule.
>>
>> > What do you think? Question is about these 3 small commits:
>> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=90ae47215de3fec862aeb1a0f0e28bb505ab1351
>> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=46d2f6d0c99f7f95600e633c7dc727745faaf95e
>> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3a52a48973b355b3aac5add92ef50650ae37c2bd
>>
>> If it was actually tested on 5.4, I could queue it up for the next
>> release cycle.
>
>Hello Sasha! Now I tested these patches on top of stable 5.4 and hwrng
>is working fine.
Thanks for testing. Queued up...
--
Thanks,
Sasha
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-21 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-20 22:25 Backporting armada-3700-rwtm-firmware DTS changes to stable kernel Pali Rohár
2021-07-20 23:03 ` Sasha Levin
2021-07-21 13:21 ` Pali Rohár
2021-07-21 13:54 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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