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Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 11:36:41 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sam Edwards <cfsworks@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev,
	Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6 126/244] arm64: dts: rockchip: Fix eMMC Data Strobe
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 03:05:31PM -0700, Sam Edwards wrote:
> On 12/11/23 11:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > 6.6-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> This is my first stable review and I don't know the policy on what we do
> with "won't hurt, might help, not strictly needed" cases (which I believe
> this one is). I'll instead list the reasons for/against it (to give some
> background) and will let you/others make the call.
> 
> Reasons FOR including this patch in 6.6-stable:
> - It is the correct (i.e. standards-compliant) thing to do.
> - Because of that, I'd be very surprised if it caused a regression.
> - It would be helpful to people who are backporting support for the
>   affected board(s) onto 6.6 while they wait for 6.7. (I am one.)

Great!

> Reasons AGAINST including this patch in 6.6-stable:
> - The bug it fixes is a solid, reliable crash on boot, which happens
>   virtually 100% of the time on affected boards. If it affected any of
>   the boards supported by 6.6, we'd probably have heard of it by now.

Ok, but as this is marked "Fixes:" that is why it was picked up.

> - 6.6 isn't LTS

It isn't?  That's news to me, you might want to check the page:
	https://kernel.org/category/releases.html
:)

thanks,

greg k-h