On Fri, Jul 06, 2018 at 01:42:45PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Fri, 6 Jul 2018 12:01:30 +0100, Lorenzo Pieralisi wrote:
>
> > > It is a serious bug, but it is not a regression. I.e whatever is fixed
> > > by this patch never worked. So if you take a conservative view on
> > > pushing patches to stable and only want to fix regressions, this one
> > > doesn't qualify. However, if you take a more open approach and say you
> > > want to fix obvious bugs/issues even in older stable kernels, then
> > > indeed this patch qualifies.
> > >
> > > If you are within the kernel developers with this more open approach to
> > > sending patches to stable, then you can add:
> > >
> > > Fixes: 8c39d710363c1 ("PCI: aardvark: Add Aardvark PCI host controller driver")
> > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > when applying the patch. Unless of course you want me to resend the
> > > patch series with this added. Just let met know what you prefer.
> >
> > It is up to you, I think it qualifies for stable kernels so I would
> > send it but it is your choice, please let me know.
>
> It's OK for me to have it in stable kernels. The fix is pretty obvious,
> so you can add the Fixes/Cc tags when applying. Unless of course you
> want me to resend an updated version.
Applied to pci/aardvark for v4.19, thanks.
Lorenzo
