Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.15 36/78] net: phy: meson-gxl: check phy_write return value

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On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 04:34:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 11:18:57AM +0100, Jerome Brunet wrote:
>> On Thu, 2018-03-08 at 04:56 +0000, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > From: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> >
>> > [ Upstream commit 9042b46eda33ef5db3cdfc9e12b3c8cabb196141 ]
>> >
>> > Always check phy_write return values. Better to be safe than sorry
>> >
>> > Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Hi Sasha,
>>
>> I have recently received a few mails from you with [PATCH AUTOSEL], such as this
>> one. I'm wondering what are the criteria to select these patches? This one does
>> not have a "Fixes" tag and, I believe, stable was not CCed of the original
>> patch. Do you have another selection method ?
>>
>> I really sorry if you already got this question a thousand times.
>>
>> I have nothing against this patch making its way to a stable release BTW, it
>> won't do any harm.
>
>Sasha, I think by now we need a "FAQ" link somewhere to point people at
>that describes how these patches are being selected as it comes up every
>other week or so, and I imagine you are getting tired of repeating
>yourself :)
>
>If you want me to find some place on kernel.org to put the text, I'll be
>glad to do so.

Let me write something up and run it by Julia as well.

-- 

Thanks,
Sasha



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