On Sunday 28 November 2021 15:36:10 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 03:22:43PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > > 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. > > Yes, for older hardware and systems. If this hardware never worked on > that kernel, you shouldn't be using old distros on it. pci-aardvark.c is PCIe controller driver. On this hardware some PCIe cards with 4.14/4.19 kernels are working fine and some only sometimes. Most parts of Armada 3720 HW is usable with 4.19 kernel and I was using Debian kernel on it without issues. > > OpenWRT is using 4.14 kernel and only recently there was a new release > > where is 5.4 kernel. > > They are getting closer to a modern kernel release, nice :) It is not funny, but sad :-( At least these stable backport updates make PCIe cards more stable for users. And hopefully OpenWRT would not revert them as it is common with updates from stable trees...
