On Sunday 28 November 2021 15:16:49 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:04:40AM +0100, Marek Behún wrote: > > Hello Greg, Sasha, > > > > this series for 4.19-stable backports all the fixes (and their > > dependencies) for Armada 3720 PCIe driver. > > These include: > > - fixes (and their dependencies) for pci-aardvark controller > > - fixes (and their dependencies) for pinctrl-armada-37xx driver > > - device-tree fixes > > > > Basically all fixes from upstream are taken, excluding those > > that need fix the emulated bridge, since that was introduced > > after 4.19. (Should we backport it? It concerns only mvebu and > > aardvark controllers...) > > Does anyone care for these old kernels? I doubt it. Debian oldstable is using 4.19 kernel. OpenWRT is using 4.14 kernel and only recently there was a new release where is 5.4 kernel. So these old kernels are still widely used. But I do not think that spending time on backporting whole emulated bridge to these kernels is something very important...
