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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: richard.gong@linux.intel.com, mdf@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Richard Gong <richard.gong@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv1] firmware: stratix10-svc: reset COMMAND_RECONFIG_FLAG_PARTIAL to 0
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 09:01:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBJvYqh2JaYKImEt@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0c4ec1b0-120e-5704-4b4f-d4255f2e84c0@redhat.com>

On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 02:00:06PM -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
> 
> On 1/27/21 1:43 PM, richard.gong@linux.intel.com wrote:
> > From: Richard Gong <richard.gong@intel.com>
> >
> > Clean up COMMAND_RECONFIG_FLAG_PARTIAL flag by resetting it to 0, which
> > aligns with the firmware settings.
> 
> For fixes, you need to have a 'Fixes: ... ' line in the comment.
> 
> This lets folks doing the stable branch know how far back to apply the fix.

It is a nice hint, but not always needed, and is NOT how to trigger a
patch to be backported to stable kernels.  Please read the documentation
on how to properly do that.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-28  8:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-27 21:43 [PATCHv1] firmware: stratix10-svc: reset COMMAND_RECONFIG_FLAG_PARTIAL to 0 richard.gong
2021-01-27 21:43 ` richard.gong
2021-01-27 22:00   ` Tom Rix
2021-01-28  8:01     ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-01-28  8:00   ` Greg KH

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