Re: Patch "Input: ps2-gpio - use IRQF_NO_AUTOEN flag in request_irq()" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 12:05:56PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 03:00:05AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 11:32:16AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 01, 2024 at 02:08:42AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 08:28:59PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > > > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > > > > 
> > > > >     Input: ps2-gpio - use IRQF_NO_AUTOEN flag in request_irq()
> > > > > 
> > > > > to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
> > > > >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> > > > > 
> > > > > The filename of the patch is:
> > > > >      input-ps2-gpio-use-irqf_no_autoen-flag-in-request_ir.patch
> > > > > and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
> > > > > 
> > > > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > > > > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> > > > 
> > > > For the love of God, why? Why does this pure cleanup type of change
> > > > needs to be in stable?
> > > 
> > > Because someone said:
> > > 
> > > > > commit 2d007ddec282076923c4d84d6b12858b9f44594a
> > > > > Author: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie@huawei.com>
> > > > > Date:   Thu Sep 12 11:30:13 2024 +0800
> > > > > 
> > > > >     Input: ps2-gpio - use IRQF_NO_AUTOEN flag in request_irq()
> > > > >     
> > > > >     [ Upstream commit dcd18a3fb1228409dfc24373c5c6868a655810b0 ]
> > > > >     
> > > > >     disable_irq() after request_irq() still has a time gap in which
> > > > >     interrupts can come. request_irq() with IRQF_NO_AUTOEN flag will
> > > > >     disable IRQ auto-enable when request IRQ.
> > > 
> > > Looks like a bug fix, and also:
> > > 
> > > > >     Fixes: 9ee0a0558819 ("Input: PS/2 gpio bit banging driver for serio bus")
> > > 
> > > Someone marked it as such.
> > > 
> > > I'll go drop it, but really, don't mark things as fixes if they really
> > > are not.
> > 
> > They are fixes, they just do not belong to stable and that is why they
> > are not marked as such.
> 
> Ok, if your subsystem will always mark this type of thing properly, we
> will be glad to add you to the "don't take any Fixes: only commits" to
> the list that we keep.  Here's the subsystems that we currently do this
> for:
> 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/ignore_list
> 
> what regex should we use for this list?

Let's do:

	drivers/input/*

and see how it goes.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry