Re: [PATCH 6.12 044/265] PCI: dw-rockchip: Dont wait for link since we can detect Link Up

Sasha Levin
2026-04-06T17:08:03Z

On Mon, Apr 06, 2026 at 09:28:54PM +0530, Harshit Mogalapalli wrote:
>Hi Sasha,
>
>
>On 06/04/26 21:13, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>
>>>We need a process improvement here.
>>>
>>>We are pulling in a broken commit as a stable-dep, so we can revert it.
>>>
>>>Patch 45 is the revert, same logic for pair (46 and 47)
>>>
>>>[PATCH 6.12 046/265] PCI: qcom: Dont wait for link if we can
>>>detect Link Up
>>>[PATCH 6.12 047/265] Revert "PCI: qcom: Dont wait for link if we
>>>can detect Link Up"
>>
>>This works in our favor: it helps us answer the future question of
>>"why wasn't
>>this commit backported", and has absolutely no effect on the actual
>>codebase.
>
>I agree this has no effect, but couldn't we just say, the reason we
>never backported it because we never have the broken commit(vulnerable
>commit) backported ?

That's the correct response we should give, yes, but the question is how do we
store this information in a way that is easily accessible to us later without
having to dig through the tree.

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Thanks,
Sasha