On Sun, Apr 09, 2017 at 03:38:06PM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi Guenter, > > On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 10:05:03 -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > I'll submit the patch as-is upstream; at least it doesn't break anything. > > If it doesn't fix your problem, we'll have to look at it again at a later > > point. > > Given that this patch fixes a regression in kernels v4.7 to v.4.10, > shouldn't it go to stable@? > The patch has a Fixes: tag, so that should happen automatically. I'll have to check if it applies cleanly to earlier kernels and if necessary send backport(s) to Greg. > As a side note, I think the second half of the patch is redundant, it > only makes registration slightly faster on IT8705F, and could have bad > side effects at least in theory. The first half seems sufficient to > me... > It only affects systems with two Super-IO chips, and I wanted to play safe. The worst side effect I can imagine would be that a second chip in a system with IT8705 as first chip would not be accepted, which is not worse than before when only one chip was supported. Thanks, Guenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hwmon" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
