From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-alma10-1.taild15c8.ts.net [100.103.45.18]) (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 DBA6C481FB9 for ; Thu, 2 Jul 2026 14:11:02 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783001464; cv=none; b=lHKU4gbjjRIB7NJsdpTGsFx/5TA1JD6mEHHwD3VmYoVw6vCS0tv42+ooMwxTRYrK36QXqsaSGVF7ouT8aIyoQ4g5FUXmBmxo1NJ9In5SO5kAlafKs9NChhNG6TZPYR4HxcQ6sMV16MILKiFsEm4GvDzt9C6Mpr9W5SIQnYsu+4g= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1783001464; c=relaxed/simple; bh=Ve7taSANLZuMYoPDi3+82QT4KBdCFgR0shejjYB7kY4=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=OpjIjZecGSk4j6aSkQr8lMzeNAlu6JQKPKSpq33HU3NrTMYM86R34ewE5O4ea26FFJzeNi7LwYajkxBTO9iXAKPmeGH1GIJn9Pf8cdaPeMzhNlgCCl+hiLEl+Ax/DcejTPxawQ5gZ5IyHLRLMZRocn4FNuHsQ7hH6oamy7wvd1w= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b=TCT7nv6Z; arc=none smtp.client-ip=100.103.45.18 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=linuxfoundation.org header.i=@linuxfoundation.org header.b="TCT7nv6Z" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 00B751F000E9; Thu, 2 Jul 2026 14:11:01 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1783001462; bh=eGN0W9GqOz+nTHlByNW+rSC+GtM2Q7ANNhzo3cBVLxM=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To; b=TCT7nv6ZJK04r7SlRBVwdWAOw5vhfcXg9oBSIgrQCLeR/5IVs8sXPjpvpPDwGnzlA ulnzSuQJhkScm77eNGaEt8zK3ZcBv2z6oRU04E41iujQ85yJDODnoSr13yDMz5rPLu UmMiMkfMLz/glciTOR+VrtZYLPTz/gzZ7rsCHD6I= Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 16:11:13 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Cheng Ming Lin Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, tudor.ambarus@linaro.org, pratyush@kernel.org, mwalle@kernel.org, miquel.raynal@bootlin.com, richard@nod.at, vigneshr@ti.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, alvinzhou@mxic.com.tw, Cheng Ming Lin Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6.y v2 0/2] mtd: spi-nor: macronix: backport Quad Input Page Program fixups Message-ID: <2026070239-proponent-lazily-990a@gregkh> References: <20260702021842.2771498-1-linchengming884@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260702021842.2771498-1-linchengming884@gmail.com> On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 10:18:40AM +0800, Cheng Ming Lin wrote: > From: Cheng Ming Lin > > This is a backport of two upstream commits to 6.6.y: > > commit 798aafeffb36 ("mtd: spi-nor: macronix: Add post_sfdp fixups > for Quad Input Page Program") > commit 797bbaa7531f ("mtd: spi-nor: macronix: add support for > mx66{l2, u1}g45g") > > Neither commit was tagged for -stable when merged. 6.6.y also predates > commit 09e5a29fa3ad ("mtd: spi-nor: macronix: convert flash_info to new > format"), which landed in v6.10, so drivers/mtd/spi-nor/macronix.c is > still in the old INFO()/NO_SFDP_FLAGS()/FIXUP_FLAGS() macro-based > format. Both patches have been adapted to that format with no other > functional change; patch 2 depends on the macronix_qpp4b_fixups hook > introduced by patch 1. Why not just move to a newer kernel to get support for these newer devices instead? That's much simpler and I'd prefer that over taking much-different patches instead. thanks, greg k-h