From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.bootlin.com ([62.4.15.54]:51339 "EHLO mail.bootlin.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751735AbeDFJVb (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Apr 2018 05:21:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2018 11:21:28 +0200 From: Thomas Petazzoni To: Lorenzo Pieralisi Cc: Bjorn Helgaas , linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, Gregory Clement , =?UTF-8?B?TWlxdcOobA==?= Raynal , Maxime Chevallier , Antoine Tenart , Victor Gu , Nadav Haklai , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] PCI: aardvark: Introduce an advk_pcie_valid_device() helper Message-ID: <20180406112128.6b904f39@windsurf> In-Reply-To: <20180404112843.GA24669@red-moon> References: <20180329083946.25970-1-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> <20180329083946.25970-2-thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com> <20180404112843.GA24669@red-moon> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello, On Wed, 4 Apr 2018 12:28:43 +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 10:39:41AM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > > In other to mimic other PCIe host controller drivers, introduce an > > advk_pcie_valid_device() helper, used in the configuration read/write > > functions. > > > > This patch by itself is not a fix, but it is required for a follow-up > > patch that is a fix, hence the Fixes tag and the Cc to stable. > > Should not we just reshuffle patch 1 and 2 instead of sending this > patch to stable ? I appreciate the merge window is open and timing is > quite tight, it is just to avoid sending churn to stable kernels > for not much. I can certainly do that, but it's actually Bjorn who asked in the first place to introduce the advk_pcie_valid_device() helper. I'll send a new patch series that has these reshuffled. Thanks, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin (formerly Free Electrons) Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com