From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-12.5 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58FB1C07E9B for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4138A60FE7 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231281AbhGTWX1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:23:27 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:39486 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230031AbhGTWXN (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:23:13 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5ECFF60FE7; Tue, 20 Jul 2021 23:03:50 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1626822230; bh=TBoVEoHmr8l0FE8ymXS9GvNU6TROTUoGnk4DpYjziPY=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=oiL2sqJaM9LDg3SjM3exUqM53YzEswOuKgcVFqAWO1EGgxsxidvW4eL7XRbTI4a1D pq+hKzbXQprsZiJi6XZxxwNg/KGyKKqJWvQYckLDz7xgjH7uOD7tB5BxJ1ncDZNDJV klKmH7OFklgrGsr8F1S7T1k0U+qdW/PUXJZSfmONXXC4z5DniTqCDvyMzCPEc6LCWu UXMPxrCIeEkocx0NoK0+lxWruCgf+T+bkP7sy9SjgvlR2/rWDhVEOjzDwL4E2Wg9Z5 wyEzqZ7q1zp/3tQWhHb2vG3U+wJcgQZCBHE2eYjDHVZZpR0esp1QblLvVK9IPgk/as XO0r29pinNglA== Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2021 19:03:49 -0400 From: Sasha Levin To: Pali =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roh=E1r?= Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Marek =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beh=FAn?= , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Backporting armada-3700-rwtm-firmware DTS changes to stable kernel Message-ID: References: <20210720222559.k4zoqr2rk62pj7ky@pali> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20210720222559.k4zoqr2rk62pj7ky@pali> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:25:59AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: >Hello Greg & Sasha, I would like to ask you for your opinion about >backporting DTS patches to stable kernel which allows usage of hwrng on >Marvell Armada 3700 devices. > >Driver is already part of 5.4 kernel, just DTS bindings are not there. >I do not know if such backport is suitable for stable kernels. In file >https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html >is written that "New device IDs and quirks are also accepted" where >"device id" could mean also small DTS change... We could, that's how I've been parsing that rule. >What do you think? Question is about these 3 small commits: >https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=90ae47215de3fec862aeb1a0f0e28bb505ab1351 >https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=46d2f6d0c99f7f95600e633c7dc727745faaf95e >https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3a52a48973b355b3aac5add92ef50650ae37c2bd If it was actually tested on 5.4, I could queue it up for the next release cycle. -- Thanks, Sasha