Re: Please backport commit 13e3a512a290 (i2c: smbus: Support up to 8 SPD EEPROMs)

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 09:35:38PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
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> [Cc: +I2C folks]
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> Dear Greg,
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> Am 27.03.24 um 17:52 schrieb Greg KH:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 04:13:26PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
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> > > Please apply commit 13e3a512a290 (i2c: smbus: Support up to 8 SPD EEPROMs)
> > > [1] to the stable series to get rid of a warning and to support more SPDs.
> > > That commit is present since v6.8-rc1.
> > 
> > How far back?
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> I’d say 6.1.
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> > But isn't this a new feature, why is it needed in older kernels?
> > It's not a fix for a regression.
> decode-dimm does not work on systems with more than four SPD EEPROMs, so I’d
> say it’s a fix.

But it's never worked on such systems so it's not a regression fix,
right?

Anyway, I'll defer to the i2c maintainers as to what they want to have
happen here, as they did not originally tag this commit for stable
inclusion.

thanks,

greg k-h