On 1/19/2022 11:02 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 17.01.2022 17:29, Hector Martin пишет:
>> This unbreaks support for USB devices, which do not have a board_type
>> to create an alt_path out of and thus were running into a NULL
>> dereference.
>>
>> Fixes: 5ff013914c62 ("brcmfmac: firmware: Allow per-board firmware binaries")
>> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
> 
> Technically, all patches that are intended to be included into next
> stable kernel update require the "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org" tag.

Being the nit picker that I am I would say it is recommended to safe 
yourself extra work, not required, for the reason you give below.

> In practice such patches usually auto-picked by the patch bot, so no
> need to resend.

Regards,
Arend