On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 06:22:05PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > > On 5/9/2021 12:17 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > > On Sun, 9 May 2021 at 19:30, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Greg, Sasha, > >> > >> These patches were not marked with a Fixes: tag but they do fix booting > >> ARM 32-bit platforms that have specific FDT placement and would cause > >> boot failures like these: > >> > > > > I don't have any objections to backporting these changes, but it would > > be helpful if you could explain why this is a regression. Also, you'll > > need to pull in the following patch as well > > This does not qualify as a regression in that it has never worked for > the specific platform that I have shown above until your 3 commits came > in and fixed that particular FDT placement. To me this qualifies as a > bug fix, and given that the 3 (now 4) commits applied without hunks, it > seems reasonable to me to back port those to stable. As this isn't a regression, why not just use 5.12 on these platforms? Why is 5.4 and 5.10 needed? thanks, greg k-h
