On Tuesday 20 July 2021 19:03:49 Sasha Levin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 12:25:59AM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > > Hello Greg & Sasha, I would like to ask you for your opinion about > > backporting DTS patches to stable kernel which allows usage of hwrng on > > Marvell Armada 3700 devices. > > > > Driver is already part of 5.4 kernel, just DTS bindings are not there. > > I do not know if such backport is suitable for stable kernels. In file > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html > > is written that "New device IDs and quirks are also accepted" where > > "device id" could mean also small DTS change... > > We could, that's how I've been parsing that rule. > > > What do you think? Question is about these 3 small commits: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=90ae47215de3fec862aeb1a0f0e28bb505ab1351 > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=46d2f6d0c99f7f95600e633c7dc727745faaf95e > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3a52a48973b355b3aac5add92ef50650ae37c2bd > > If it was actually tested on 5.4, I could queue it up for the next > release cycle. Hello Sasha! Now I tested these patches on top of stable 5.4 and hwrng is working fine.
