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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	"Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
	"Maxime Ripard" <mripard@kernel.org>,
	"Thomas Zimmermann" <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
	"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
	"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>, "JC Kuo" <jckuo@nvidia.com>,
	"Vinod Koul" <vkoul@kernel.org>,
	"Kishon Vijay Abraham I" <kishon@kernel.org>,
	"Thierry Reding" <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
	"Jonathan Hunter" <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
	"Matthias Brugger" <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
	"AngeloGioacchino Del Regno"
	<angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>,
	"Nícolas F. R. A. Prado" <nfraprado@collabora.com>,
	kernel-team@android.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-phy@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] A few minor fw_devlink fixes
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:08:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024102457-manager-counting-ff68@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20241024061347.1771063-1-saravanak@google.com>

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 11:13:41PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> Probably easiest for Greg to pull in these changes?
> 
> PSA: Do not pull any of these patches into stable kernels. fw_devlink
> had a lot of changes that landed in the last year. It's hard to ensure
> cherry-picks have picked up all the dependencies correctly. If any of
> these really need to get cherry-picked into stable kernels, cc me and
> wait for my explicit Ack.

You can do that with the correct tag in the commit as per the stable
documentation if you really want to :)

But why would these not be able to go backwards?  What changed to
require them now and not be ok for older kernels?

thanks,

greg k-h


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-10-24  7:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-10-24  6:13 [PATCH 0/3] A few minor fw_devlink fixes Saravana Kannan
2024-10-24  6:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] drm: display: Set fwnode for aux bus devices Saravana Kannan
2024-10-24 17:27   ` Thierry Reding
2024-10-25  0:22   ` Dmitry Baryshkov
2024-10-24  6:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] phy: tegra: xusb: Set fwnode for xusb port devices Saravana Kannan
2024-10-24 17:27   ` Thierry Reding
2024-10-24  6:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] drivers: core: fw_devlink: Make the error message a bit more useful Saravana Kannan
2024-10-24  6:16   ` Saravana Kannan
2024-10-24  7:06     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-10-24  7:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2024-10-24 16:45   ` [PATCH 0/3] A few minor fw_devlink fixes Saravana Kannan

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