From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Cheng Ming Lin <linchengming884@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, tudor.ambarus@linaro.org,
pratyush@kernel.org, mwalle@kernel.org,
miquel.raynal@bootlin.com, richard@nod.at, vigneshr@ti.com,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, alvinzhou@mxic.com.tw,
Cheng Ming Lin <chengminglin@mxic.com.tw>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6.y v2 0/2] mtd: spi-nor: macronix: backport Quad Input Page Program fixups
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 16:11:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026070239-proponent-lazily-990a@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260702021842.2771498-1-linchengming884@gmail.com>
On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 10:18:40AM +0800, Cheng Ming Lin wrote:
> From: Cheng Ming Lin <chengminglin@mxic.com.tw>
>
> This is a backport of two upstream commits to 6.6.y:
>
> commit 798aafeffb36 ("mtd: spi-nor: macronix: Add post_sfdp fixups
> for Quad Input Page Program")
> commit 797bbaa7531f ("mtd: spi-nor: macronix: add support for
> mx66{l2, u1}g45g")
>
> Neither commit was tagged for -stable when merged. 6.6.y also predates
> commit 09e5a29fa3ad ("mtd: spi-nor: macronix: convert flash_info to new
> format"), which landed in v6.10, so drivers/mtd/spi-nor/macronix.c is
> still in the old INFO()/NO_SFDP_FLAGS()/FIXUP_FLAGS() macro-based
> format. Both patches have been adapted to that format with no other
> functional change; patch 2 depends on the macronix_qpp4b_fixups hook
> introduced by patch 1.
Why not just move to a newer kernel to get support for these newer
devices instead? That's much simpler and I'd prefer that over taking
much-different patches instead.
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-02 2:18 [PATCH 6.6.y v2 0/2] mtd: spi-nor: macronix: backport Quad Input Page Program fixups Cheng Ming Lin
2026-07-02 2:18 ` [PATCH 6.6.y v2 1/2] mtd: spi-nor: macronix: Add post_sfdp fixups for Quad Input Page Program Cheng Ming Lin
2026-07-02 2:18 ` [PATCH 6.6.y v2 2/2] mtd: spi-nor: macronix: add support for mx66{l2, u1}g45g Cheng Ming Lin
2026-07-02 14:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
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