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Date:   Sun, 28 Nov 2021 15:36:10 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Pali =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roh=E1r?= <pali@kernel.org>
Cc:     Marek =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beh=FAn?= <kabel@kernel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19 00/20] Armada 3720 PCIe fixes for 4.19
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On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 03:22:43PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Sunday 28 November 2021 15:16:49 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:04:40AM +0100, Marek Behún wrote:
> > > Hello Greg, Sasha,
> > > 
> > > this series for 4.19-stable backports all the fixes (and their
> > > dependencies) for Armada 3720 PCIe driver.
> > > These include:
> > > - fixes (and their dependencies) for pci-aardvark controller
> > > - fixes (and their dependencies) for pinctrl-armada-37xx driver
> > > - device-tree fixes
> > > 
> > > Basically all fixes from upstream are taken, excluding those
> > > that need fix the emulated bridge, since that was introduced
> > > after 4.19. (Should we backport it? It concerns only mvebu and
> > > aardvark controllers...)
> > 
> > Does anyone care for these old kernels?  I doubt it.
> 
> Debian oldstable is using 4.19 kernel.

Yes, for older hardware and systems.  If this hardware never worked on
that kernel, you shouldn't be using old distros on it.

> OpenWRT is using 4.14 kernel and only recently there was a new release
> where is 5.4 kernel.

They are getting closer to a modern kernel release, nice :)

thanks,

greg k-h