On Wed, Oct 16, 2024 at 06:17:27AM +0000, Avri Altman wrote: > > > It may be prudent to drop this patch from all stable trees. In the > > > best case, this patch doesn't change the behavior of the UFS Exynos driver. > > > If anything would have been overlooked, there is a risk that this > > > patch breaks the UFS Exynos driver. > > > > That kind of implies that this is a risky patch to be in Linus's tree right now. > > Why was it marked for backporting to stable then? Why is it ok in 6.12-rc? > > Why is the Fixes: tag wrong? > The code is fixing an issue related to a Samsung quirk relevant to Exynos platforms. > The stable tag was added because of this comment - https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg198943.html > It was tested by Google on a Pixel 6 that has an Exynos host controller - https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-scsi/msg199490.html > However, no one from Samsung acked it. Ok, so this tree will now be bug-compatible with Linus's tree, which is our goal overall :) thanks, greg k-h
