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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-23 14:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20221217000937.41115-1-sashal@kernel.org>
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 ` [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
2022-12-20 0:01 ` Andre Przywara
2022-12-20 6:48 ` Icenowy Zheng
2022-12-23 14:09 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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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