On 15-02-19, 07:47, Doug Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 7:02 PM Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On 14-02-19, 10:12, Douglas Anderson wrote:
> > > The genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_name() simply takes the name and passes it
> > > to of_property_match_string() where the argument is "const char *".
> > > Adding a const here allows a later patch to add a const to
> > > dev_pm_domain_attach_by_name() which allows drivers to pass in a name
> > > that was declared "const" in a driver.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 5d6be70add65 ("PM / Domains: Introduce option to attach a device by name to genpd")
> >
> > Not sure if this should be counted as a fix.
>
> I'm OK if the "Fixes" is stripped when applying or if someone tells me
> to re-post without the Fixes--just let me know. In general I do a lot
> of cherry-picks from upstream and I appreciate the Fixes tag helping
> to link patches together. In this case if I picked the original patch
> I'd definitely want this one too. Certainly, though, CCing stable
> would make no sense in this case. ;-)
I am not sure if this is being done right now or not, but I read/heard
somewhere that stable has started picking "Fixes" patches directly as
well even if they aren't cc'd to stable.
--
viresh
