From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 61C08189BB0; Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:08:16 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729753700; cv=none; b=WwPpmW/oJ5StIMVlnv3YZQBCPzoXiAKE0tG70eQbcjqrJR3ccs4ogZY+tXy7k3PVbbN9V+OkoFuz82YiEEVrUEFoBkquT4WA4c+Ab5Mx8Zt92bpKBf1g5kDr2T+CTiuSRu6csITJpL+QH4/DnWxfrbNXXFR4WC6NMUJQzTilLOA= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1729753700; c=relaxed/simple; bh=PKc1Ezq4d15KDwftSYsYrCXzavd/TwVvK03GAg5yH8g=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=bRKc1LlqHuSDnD9aeTRZBQCEDADe+3oL0lsj/JTXLaD5Uw75kopl9SXjXzS04hFM5MRDMXozLq2lSf8Wwtm19fxTbX0kSko9vAfJTlXnxXZKDAMYKiwZ4l6D3VX4JChQSZt0TpsEEUcd0YHwrwlJO3bGSxElTEP5Qy5s6RrbBFY= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=EXDsSjLY; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="EXDsSjLY" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 659C3C4CEC7; Thu, 24 Oct 2024 07:08:16 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1729753696; bh=PKc1Ezq4d15KDwftSYsYrCXzavd/TwVvK03GAg5yH8g=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=EXDsSjLYy/i5gU8PDLYZ96TpQdUoX/l3LzwwOhNGiQ1i+55LFSBuh0KUoAjION0q1 3/eyAr6Zj4/7bU9Gcyj+8Ai+3vS1gTwNeUYvxBUXoUwnGvVSURyPzfUtq7S8GHfSBw CQqZiDGcF6YDPG6noOQlLhky4XPIh7s+ddxatdR4= Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:08:06 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Saravana Kannan Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Maarten Lankhorst , Maxime Ripard , Thomas Zimmermann , David Airlie , Simona Vetter , JC Kuo , Vinod Koul , Kishon Vijay Abraham I , Thierry Reding , Jonathan Hunter , Matthias Brugger , AngeloGioacchino Del Regno , =?iso-8859-1?Q?N=EDcolas_F=2E_R=2E_A=2E?= Prado , kernel-team@android.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-phy@lists.infradead.org, linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] A few minor fw_devlink fixes Message-ID: <2024102457-manager-counting-ff68@gregkh> References: <20241024061347.1771063-1-saravanak@google.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20241024061347.1771063-1-saravanak@google.com> 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