Re: [PATCH] PCI/VMD: Fix config addressing with bus offsets

["Derrick, Jonathan" <jonathan.derrick@intel.com>]

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On Fri, 2019-06-21 at 15:28 +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
> [dropped CC stable]
> 
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 03:15:38PM -0600, Jon Derrick wrote:
> > VMD config space addressing relies on mapping the BDF of the target into
> > the VMD config bar. When using bus number offsets to number the VMD
> > domain, the offset needs to be ignored in order to correctly map devices
> > to their config space.
> > 
> > Fixes: 2a5a9c9a20f9 ("PCI: vmd: Add offset to bus numbers if necessary")
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.18
> 
> Hi Jon,
> 
> that's not how stable should be handled. You should always start
> by fixing mainline and if there are backports to be fixed too you
> should add patch dependencies in the CC area, see:
> 
> Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
> 
> Never add stable to the CC list in the email header, only in the
> commit log.
> 
> When your patch hits mainline it will trickle back into stable,
> if you specified dependencies as described above there is nothing
> to do.
> 
> Thanks,
> Lorenzo
> 
Hi Lorenzo,

Thanks for correcting me here. It's not my normal flow so I apologize
for getting this so egregiously incorrect.


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