From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C32B144D03 for ; Thu, 23 May 2024 11:01:51 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1716462112; cv=none; b=Jj5KUE2+9D+V3OZJpJNYrQP82uIPpM6EMOscgy8ST9U7eGs1dGBDN2N0IndHM9zwk2WQGm5a5qkfwi26eBw+mk3und0xlG2yA+3w34UY3PT30wmHul6kVb1D0r3jInxtT4sIMoceEnRRoJFro+KGIepZCLKieui0P77yuwiR61c= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1716462112; c=relaxed/simple; bh=/xj8Nt4/USIyq3bIDZbElwA4J4ekDtA5u6Q/llraNW8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=V0s8+PU5MyWoZOItMwaL/b1axZRA32dZbj6doWpkuOtVeI7HYbYWr3dxZ/uGO/PlwcrKaPkafivgLE3vxzTrv7+wS/cJw+cPDaqQQKZegEBipcUDd8xVMOOv/22y1FxzPk7UKM+dQcnrOZ9nIqIxfhnH7CT5l7dg2lXI5ZcfyKc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=PI+bj24U; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="PI+bj24U" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 478CEC4AF07; Thu, 23 May 2024 11:01:50 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1716462111; bh=/xj8Nt4/USIyq3bIDZbElwA4J4ekDtA5u6Q/llraNW8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=PI+bj24UeaMzyR1s/yAIbRwawWzcNXJJHUQDVpJSw8Ra8Fe3C7vPzpvN0V9FiBBkD DW+VWQMoqzU4pG5L+04+4wneN0hLwCHOz2vMzeJTQ09T+9nzCNzwVVEf9GlFIlKjX0 KOKAmyOFXSqGr23s3ImyfWgMxuG7qHhiz50T1MH8= Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 13:01:47 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Lin Gui =?utf-8?B?KOahguaelyk=?= Cc: "stable@vger.kernel.org" , Yongdong Zhang =?utf-8?B?KOW8oOawuOS4nCk=?= , Bo Ye =?utf-8?B?KOWPtuazoik=?= , Qilin Tan =?utf-8?B?KOiwrem6kum6nyk=?= , Wenbin Mei =?utf-8?B?KOaiheaWh+W9rCk=?= , Mengqi Zhang =?utf-8?B?KOW8oOaipueQpik=?= Subject: Re: =?utf-8?B?5Zue5aSNOiDlm57lpI06IGJhY2tw?= =?utf-8?Q?ort_?= =?utf-8?Q?a?= patch for Linux kernel-5.15 kernel-6.1 kenrel-6.6 stable tree Message-ID: <2024052313-taste-diner-2d78@gregkh> References: <2024052333-parasitic-impure-6d69@gregkh> <2024052329-sadden-disallow-a982@gregkh> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 08:21:23AM +0000, Lin Gui (桂林) wrote: > Dear @Greg KH, > > > I don't understand, why does this qualify as a stable patch? The > > changes says this is "optional", which means the device should work just > > fine without it, right? > > [MTK] > > If without this patch, some emmc devices may cause unstable operation and report CRC errors. > > > > Is this a regression fix from something that previously used to work > > properly? > [MTK] > Yes Ok, thanks. But you need to provide a working, and tested, version of it for 5.15.y as it obviously does not even work there (which means you did not test that?) greg k-h