From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CC3B5C43602 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2026 14:11:08 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=I9Q8jzL3mFBrpM4Jq4Cn2aafDw89Rs8oPKDnnWLmyG0=; b=Af5Q9PcWUxAqHH RI92bV7dwOQ+I7hfNzUWxtSFvel6frBWeuliY9DAjZZE0nfvORbMCVE0ViI0C5aMm2DS1raqJKrCm L4IzyTSG4q4KN9yK713ucwRtyqFAru02LsotU7EGko98zQEqvgDWBVTSn4Vx558zigBJFXTMUYL5q BsTRDcCDRWv8kdKfBPHQQXz/A7vRWfnRFZnzcmb5RrJcu8Y8RTyIiUa5tGU3GEPRi9VvKQDW+9mCu gVnulGvkyBTMyVJU4oUZMNYUu4zmcjTit+aVPYSPQAAU3lj6LAETdnz+uRr/IgBKeDI7tOoLGNC9I wwjS25xrOPVCjJOE0cQA==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1wfI88-00000004bQ4-3tIx; Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:11:04 +0000 Received: from tor.source.kernel.org ([2600:3c04:e001:324:0:1991:8:25]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.99.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1wfI87-00000004bPo-2Ek7 for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:11:03 +0000 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (quasi.space.kernel.org [100.103.45.18]) by tor.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4E0601EC; Thu, 2 Jul 2026 14:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 00B751F000E9; Thu, 2 Jul 2026 14:11:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1783001462; bh=eGN0W9GqOz+nTHlByNW+rSC+GtM2Q7ANNhzo3cBVLxM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=TCT7nv6ZJK04r7SlRBVwdWAOw5vhfcXg9oBSIgrQCLeR/5IVs8sXPjpvpPDwGnzlA ulnzSuQJhkScm77eNGaEt8zK3ZcBv2z6oRU04E41iujQ85yJDODnoSr13yDMz5rPLu UmMiMkfMLz/glciTOR+VrtZYLPTz/gzZ7rsCHD6I= Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 16:11:13 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Cheng Ming Lin 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 Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6.y v2 0/2] mtd: spi-nor: macronix: backport Quad Input Page Program fixups Message-ID: <2026070239-proponent-lazily-990a@gregkh> References: <20260702021842.2771498-1-linchengming884@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260702021842.2771498-1-linchengming884@gmail.com> X-BeenThere: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-mtd" Errors-To: linux-mtd-bounces+linux-mtd=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 10:18:40AM +0800, Cheng Ming Lin wrote: > From: Cheng Ming Lin > > 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 ______________________________________________________ Linux MTD discussion mailing list http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-mtd/