On Sat, 19 Aug 2023, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > > Iff this patch is accepted, it must go in before [PATCH v2 2/3], else > > the latter would cause a regression. And backporting to stable must > > take that into account, too. > > I don't see it as a regression - the driver still works OK, it's only > the byte swap option that's broken on Atari, and that's newly > introduced. > > But this patch changes the user space exposed platform device name, as > you point out elsewhere. That's reason enough to drop it. > Such a script would be broken on q40 already. When a fix has a dependency on a separate patch you can backport both by specifying a cherry-picking sequence. We may need Geert to add those commit hashes though. This is discussed in Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst
