On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 03:05:31PM -0700, Sam Edwards wrote: > On 12/11/23 11:20, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > Hi Greg, > > This is my first stable review and I don't know the policy on what we do > with "won't hurt, might help, not strictly needed" cases (which I believe > this one is). I'll instead list the reasons for/against it (to give some > background) and will let you/others make the call. > > Reasons FOR including this patch in 6.6-stable: > - It is the correct (i.e. standards-compliant) thing to do. > - Because of that, I'd be very surprised if it caused a regression. > - It would be helpful to people who are backporting support for the > affected board(s) onto 6.6 while they wait for 6.7. (I am one.) Great! > Reasons AGAINST including this patch in 6.6-stable: > - The bug it fixes is a solid, reliable crash on boot, which happens > virtually 100% of the time on affected boards. If it affected any of > the boards supported by 6.6, we'd probably have heard of it by now. Ok, but as this is marked "Fixes:" that is why it was picked up. > - 6.6 isn't LTS It isn't? That's news to me, you might want to check the page: https://kernel.org/category/releases.html :) thanks, greg k-h
