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 76C7D2FC00B; Thu, 4 Dec 2025 16:43:43 +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=1764866623; cv=none; b=mMX4ydT+3MlC2Bw8TFxOJFL7cHrdz7cZRpWcZVSL0p5hkIKcCg55vTHz1/Ph4o9F+WIj9JZ2TfcTVDQjKDF+BXx/vYUfQkM+0M9QfcbadO8wUTZDz4zXFrYSVQEsZAul0n5KMLxOEQadC6PkXp9hPCQXF5wrH+ANnKvHpRee9uU= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1764866623; c=relaxed/simple; bh=QMKIDQg1PZq9cz8LVq74rzJ6LRDjvQ3Ka9tci70Fqgw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=QnW9JfEL5ZVzRKcRHkrLUboPh9PBwYGP6PkC5IW2PWCQxwfKkQiYQMzPk8J0oR1W3tQAHFYOzt7TSg+sttmDNoyYIow5oWIAk3di1wu4RotFLMrTPu5c4LKwXG9iQFsPAZ8sV7gm8npuddic5DexQGJhJ60SbWYXBzv38Zuaw6E= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=lE2uBjeO; 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="lE2uBjeO" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8CAEEC4CEFB; Thu, 4 Dec 2025 16:43:42 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1764866623; bh=QMKIDQg1PZq9cz8LVq74rzJ6LRDjvQ3Ka9tci70Fqgw=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=lE2uBjeOsMLtjoVxAPJyqwxMZBUpzzKNyy7g/sLgwC12VolNi5ncYsJ3fIxSoQigQ rPGaf3i6pedg89CSCNYHDr7TO/MaMQpTUIhYiM7et9FMsAtTg2y2aORi/DOpupyGhO UeB1fGzKvJ81L4eFEcBnkT5I+y3kVVhemwK620fw= Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 17:43:39 +0100 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: "Barry K. Nathan" Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, patches@lists.linux.dev, Philipp Hortmann , Dominik Karol =?utf-8?Q?Pi=C4=85tkowski?= , Guenter Roeck Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.12 114/132] [PATCH v6.12] staging: rtl8712: Remove driver using deprecated API wext Message-ID: <2025120437-ladle-childlike-7f5d@gregkh> References: <20251203152343.285859633@linuxfoundation.org> <20251203152347.516234988@linuxfoundation.org> 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, Dec 04, 2025 at 08:31:29AM -0800, Barry K. Nathan wrote: > On 12/3/25 07:29, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 6.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: Philipp Hortmann > > > > commit e8785404de06a69d89dcdd1e9a0b6ea42dc6d327 upstream. > > As far as I can tell, this isn't the correct upstream commit. Commit > e8785404de06a69d89dcdd1e9a0b6ea42dc6d327 upstream is > "Bluetooth: MGMT: fix crash in set_mesh_sync and set_mesh_complete" > and I think the actual upstream commit for this patch is > 41e883c137ebe6eec042658ef750cbb0529f6ca8. Good catch! I'll go fix that up in all trees, thanks. > Once the incorrect upstream commit ID caught my attention, I also noticed > the following: > > > The longterm kernels will still support this hardware for years. > > The commit messages for the 5.15, 6.1, and 6.6 backports removed this line. > (I'm mentioning this because I'm guessing the 6.12 backport commit message > was also supposed to remove it.) > > > Find further discussions in the Link below. > > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/a02e3e0b-8a9b-47d5-87cf-2c957a474daa@gmail.com/T/#t > > Signed-off-by: Philipp Hortmann > > Tested-by: Dominik Karol Piątkowski > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241020144933.10956-1-philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > [groeck: Resolved conflicts] > > Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > Another link that I believe does a better job of explaining why this driver > is being removed from LTS kernels, and why now: > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20251204021604.GA843400@ax162/T/#t Good point, I'll go make these changes, thanks! greg k-h