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 EB74838228B; Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:00:46 +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=1777532447; cv=none; b=BIEwjsMlhZVf8vtaCErxvA6sbIXe+E0yapiZrRxboKqMdIM3CqKxc/CxZtd0PdhVdl0zot57CeFXTOupyp6r4W6keF0hKRYqJKoTRHCzOHf4SIYOeWEXdDK4f6i+JKimLXVGap8DiF/TZGFOECLhaZm+LztIbtxdCFnudI2TN/o= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777532447; c=relaxed/simple; bh=vm4DnZEcnJZov8kEum6ZEQm9FFa1s/wzkKI1zE9zvVo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=igPgfr50jWORvrDI1lKD3pxWhZTu6sKjDw2PXzT36GPyn73IznH21xKWuOzBqzDVAJ/ITv9TxIbQu97R2WmtehCmAV+OIhFGz/4nohl7/mqGPuvPp1fomp6AqNajqkxDk5znSPVq8qGsOWblLp+mxsmT0/lNzgINz18SWOE98s8= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=QOeRkHuG; 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="QOeRkHuG" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C6B39C2BCC4; Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:00:45 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1777532446; bh=vm4DnZEcnJZov8kEum6ZEQm9FFa1s/wzkKI1zE9zvVo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=QOeRkHuGa9UdSBMBMJA0jEs1Tz6YWkscd1/CkCPHjledr/hKyADvk3b2UNHBk0Z56 m0dgMwLw/bmKeoNCK5dtTMNLzUl+scEWJ7dg7bVW18RfPWk/DKAF7KbOKsKTmoCn2O B/pcGfm1VG7NuPQyNIGyEIXcnHEDLhrwfDXM/fJs= Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:00:06 +0200 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Danilo Krummrich Cc: Johan Hovold , "Rafael J . Wysocki" , driver-core@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] driver core: faux: fix root device registration Message-ID: <2026043054-limes-simply-e9ad@gregkh> References: <20260424153127.2647405-1-johan@kernel.org> <20260424153127.2647405-2-johan@kernel.org> 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: On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 10:11:31PM +0200, Danilo Krummrich wrote: > On Wed Apr 29, 2026 at 5:02 PM CEST, Johan Hovold wrote: > > Again, feel free to drop the CC stable tag if you want to. > > It's not so much about what I want -- I just try to stay close to what the > guideline is, and only deviate when there's a good reason. > Personally, I think it's good to backport this. I trust Johan here so I have no objection to taking this for stable trees (nor the other patches he tagged for stable). The rules are there for the stable maintainers to say "no" to, not so much for us to be extremely strict about it at times if it makes sense to us. thanks, greg k-h