Re: [PATCH 0/3] A few minor fw_devlink fixes

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-10-24T07:15:51Z

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 11:13:41PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> Probably easiest for Greg to pull in these changes?
>
> PSA: Do not pull any of these patches into stable kernels. fw_devlink
> had a lot of changes that landed in the last year. It's hard to ensure
> cherry-picks have picked up all the dependencies correctly. If any of
> these really need to get cherry-picked into stable kernels, cc me and
> wait for my explicit Ack.

You can do that with the correct tag in the commit as per the stable
documentation if you really want to :)

But why would these not be able to go backwards? What changed to
require them now and not be ok for older kernels?

thanks,

greg k-h