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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com>,
	intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915/gen9: unconditionally apply the memory bandwidth WA
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:10:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161011111013.GA10805@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a8ebqhpq.fsf@intel.com>

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 01:54:09PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2016, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:34:14AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> >> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Paulo Zanoni <paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com> wrote:
> >> The patch is a bit on the large side for stable. 100 lines with context
> >> is the rule.
> >
> > Huh?  It's only 49 line of changes:
> >
> >> >  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_pm.c | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >> >  1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > That's fine for stable, we take i915 stable patches much bigger than
> > that all the time :)
> 
> Oh, I thought the rule was "100 lines, with context", but I certainly
> won't argue! Never mind! ;)

It's the "official" rule, yes, but really, context of the patch itself
(i.e. what it does), is the key thing.

thanks,

greg k-h

      reply	other threads:[~2016-10-11 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-10 20:30 [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915/gen9: unconditionally apply the memory bandwidth WA Paulo Zanoni
2016-10-10 20:34 ` Lyude Paul
2016-10-10 20:46   ` Zanoni, Paulo R
2016-10-10 20:55     ` Lyude Paul
2016-10-11 18:25       ` Paulo Zanoni
2016-10-14 21:45         ` Lyude
2016-10-11  7:34 ` [Intel-gfx] " Jani Nikula
2016-10-11 10:31   ` Greg KH
2016-10-11 10:54     ` Jani Nikula
2016-10-11 11:10       ` Greg KH [this message]

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