Re: [PATCH] spi-nor: intel-spi: Add support for Intel Ice Lake SPI serial flash

[Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2018-08-29 at 11:17 +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
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> Hi Marek,
> 
> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 18:56:38 +0200
> Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On 08/28/2018 06:50 PM, Mika Westerberg wrote:
> > > Intel Ice Lake exposes the SPI serial flash controller as a PCI device
> > > in the same way than Intel Denverton. Add Ice Lake SPI serial flash PCI
> > > ID to the driver list of supported devices.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > This should probably go through trivial patches ML, no ?
> 
> Nope, it should go through the spi-nor tree. Actually, even for trivial
> fixes like typos, I prefer to take them directly to avoid possible
> future conflicts in case something changes near the typo.
> 
> > Also, CC Stable.
> 
> Why? It's adding a new entry in pci_ids[] table, it looks like
> supporting new HW to me, not fixing a bug.

So you can boot/use new HW with stable kernels. Stable kernels would become
useless fairly quickly otherwise.
HW enablement patches are OK when they don't affect existing HW by much.

 Jocke
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