On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 03:21:56PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
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.
Thanks for testing. Queued up...
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Thanks,
Sasha
