Re: Missing patches of a patch series during AUTOSEL backport

["gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Oct 24, 2023 at 01:02:39PM +0000, Rodríguez Barbarin, José Javier wrote:
> Dear Sasha Levin,
> 
> I am the author of a patch series and I am writting you because I have
> detected an issue with a patch series I have submitted in May'23.
> 
> I sent a series of 3 patches to the maintainer. When he approved them,
> he sent an email to Greg, requesting him to include such
> patch series in kernel 6.4.
> 
> You can check the email thread here:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230411083329.4506-1-jth@kernel.org/

I totally missed that patch thread as there was no git commit ids in it,
sorry.

> For a reason I cannot understand, the AUTOSEL only chose 1 of 3 patches
> of the series, so only 1 was backported to stable kernel versions.
> 
> [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.3 24/24] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> memory overlapping
> [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.2 20/20] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> memory overlapping
> [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 19/19] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> memory overlapping
> [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.15 10/10] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> memory overlapping
> [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.10 9/9] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> memory overlapping
> [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.4 9/9] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> memory overlapping
> [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 9/9] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> memory overlapping
> [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 8/8] mcb-pci: Reallocate memory region to avoid
> memory overlapping
> 
> In kernel 6.4 and above, the 3 patches were included.

autosel comes along later and decided that some of them were to be
included, that was independent of your email.

> Including only 1 patch is causing crashes in part of our devices.
> 
> Please, could you backport the remaining 2 patches to the stable
> versions?

What is the git commit ids that you are asking for to be applied?
That's a requirement for us to take stuff.

thanks,

greg k-h