Re: [PATCH 6.5 369/491] of: dynamic: Add interfaces for creating device node dynamically

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On Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 10:53:41PM +0100, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, 24 Nov 2023 17:50:05 +0000
> Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 6.5-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> Isn't it quite strange to take this patch, which is clearly a feature
> patch, into a stable branch?
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Clément Léger <clement.leger@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Lizhi Hou <lizhi.hou@xxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1692120000-46900-2-git-send-email-lizhi.hou@xxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Stable-dep-of: c9260693aa0c ("PCI: Lengthen reset delay for VideoPropulsion Torrent QN16e card")
> 
> This looks very odd. I don't see how c9260693aa0c (which is the trivial
> addition of a PCIe fixup) can have a dependency on this complex patch
> that allows to create device nodes in the Device Tree dynamically.
> 
> Am I missing something obvious here?

No, I thought I caught this already, this is the "stable-dep-of" bot
going a bit crazy.  I'll go fix this up for the next -rc release, by
dropping this, thanks!

greg k-h




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