From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from out5-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:49271 "EHLO out5-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752286AbcJKLK7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Oct 2016 07:10:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:10:13 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Jani Nikula Cc: Paulo Zanoni , intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, Dhinakaran Pandiyan Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 1/2] drm/i915/gen9: unconditionally apply the memory bandwidth WA Message-ID: <20161011111013.GA10805@kroah.com> References: <1476131459-23763-1-git-send-email-paulo.r.zanoni@intel.com> <87wphfqqyx.fsf@intel.com> <20161011103107.GA9793@kroah.com> <87a8ebqhpq.fsf@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87a8ebqhpq.fsf@intel.com> Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 01:54:09PM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Tue, 11 Oct 2016, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 10:34:14AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > >> On Mon, 10 Oct 2016, Paulo Zanoni 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