From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Return-Path: Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 12:01:30 +0100 From: Lorenzo Pieralisi To: Thomas Petazzoni Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] PCI: aardvark: Size bridges before resources allocation Message-ID: <20180706110130.GA14439@red-moon> References: <20180629091620.31503-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> <20180629091620.31503-2-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> <20180705141522.GA13716@red-moon> <20180705161909.2a7a6030@windsurf> MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180705161909.2a7a6030@windsurf> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Antoine Tenart , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Gregory Clement , Maxime Chevallier , Nadav Haklai , Victor Gu , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Miqu=E8l?= Raynal , Bjorn Helgaas , Zachary Zhang , Wilson Ding , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+bjorn=helgaas.com@lists.infradead.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 04:19:09PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello Lorenzo, > > Thanks for your feedback! > > On Thu, 5 Jul 2018 15:15:22 +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > > > I am queueing these two patches but this one seems a serious bug, > > I reckon we should send it to stable kernels (and would be grateful > > if you provide me with a Fixes tag and a kernel log to add to the > > commit log). > > It is a serious bug, but it is not a regression. I.e whatever is fixed > by this patch never worked. So if you take a conservative view on > pushing patches to stable and only want to fix regressions, this one > doesn't qualify. However, if you take a more open approach and say you > want to fix obvious bugs/issues even in older stable kernels, then > indeed this patch qualifies. > > If you are within the kernel developers with this more open approach to > sending patches to stable, then you can add: > > Fixes: 8c39d710363c1 ("PCI: aardvark: Add Aardvark PCI host controller driver") > Cc: > > when applying the patch. Unless of course you want me to resend the > patch series with this added. Just let met know what you prefer. It is up to you, I think it qualifies for stable kernels so I would send it but it is your choice, please let me know. Thanks, Lorenzo > Thanks! > > Thomas > -- > Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) > Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering > https://bootlin.com _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel