Re: [PATCH] spi-nor: intel-spi: Add support for Intel Ice Lake SPI serial flash

[Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 10:28:05 +0000
Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@infinera.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 11:17 +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
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> > 
> > Hi Marek,
> > 
> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:56:38 +0200
> > Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com> wrote:
> >   
> > > On 08/28/2018 06:50 PM, Mika Westerberg wrote:  
> > > > Intel Ice Lake exposes the SPI serial flash controller as a PCI device
> > > > in the same way than Intel Denverton. Add Ice Lake SPI serial flash PCI
> > > > ID to the driver list of supported devices.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com>  
> > > 
> > > This should probably go through trivial patches ML, no ?  
> > 
> > Nope, it should go through the spi-nor tree. Actually, even for trivial
> > fixes like typos, I prefer to take them directly to avoid possible
> > future conflicts in case something changes near the typo.
> >   
> > > Also, CC Stable.  
> > 
> > Why? It's adding a new entry in pci_ids[] table, it looks like
> > supporting new HW to me, not fixing a bug.  
> 
> So you can boot/use new HW with stable kernels. Stable kernels would become
> useless fairly quickly otherwise.
> HW enablement patches are OK when they don't affect existing HW by much.

Where did you get that from? I've always been told that Cc-ing stable
was reserved for bug fixes.