Re: [PATCH 4.14 01/31] eeprom: at24: Add support for address-width property

Sasha Levin
2018-11-09T17:30:18Z

On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>pt., 9 lis 2018 o 12:16 Greg Kroah-Hartman
><gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> napisał(a):
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 09, 2018 at 08:48:32AM +0100, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
>> > czw., 8 lis 2018 o 23:08 Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> napisał(a):
>> > >
>> > > 4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Hi Greg,
>> >
>> > this looks like a new feature, not a fix. Are you sure this should go
>> > into the stable branch?
>>
>> Adrian Bunk asked for it to be included as he said it was a good "quirk"
>> support for some hardware enablement issues.
>>
>> If you think it should be dropped, I'll be glad to do so, but it seems
>> harmless to me.
>>
>
>Nah I'm fine, it just seemed like it didn't really fulfill the
>requirements for stable.

From my understanding this patch enabled the use of new devices, even
though the description of the patch doesn't specify that.

--
Thanks,
Sasha