On 1/20/2022 2:24 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 20.01.2022 16:23, Dmitry Osipenko пишет:
>> 20.01.2022 11:29, Arend van Spriel пишет:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Will be nice if stable tag could officially become a recommendation,
>> implying the stable tag. It's a requirement today, at least Greg KH
>> always demands to add it :)
> 
> *implying the stable tag if "fixes" tag presents.

I was a little confused reading your previous email in this thread. This 
makes a lot more sense :-p