Hi all, I'm writing as a bystander working with 6.1.y stable branch and possibly lacking some context with the established DRM -> stable patch flow, Cc'ing a large number of people. The commit being reverted from 6.1.y is the one that duplicates the changes already backported to that branch with another commit. It is essentially a "similar" commit but cherry-picked at some point during the DRM development process. The duplicate has no runtime effect but should not actually remain in the stable trees. It was already reverted [1] from 6.6/6.10/6.11 but still made its way later to 6.1. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20241007035711.46624-1-jsg@xxxxxxxxx/T/#u At [1] Greg KH also stated that the observed problems are quite common while backporting DRM patches to stable trees. The current duplicate patch has in every sense a cosmetic impact but in other circumstances and for other patches this may have gone wrong. So, is there any way to adjust this process? BTW, a question to the stable-team: what Git magic (3-way-merge?) let the duplicate patch be applied successfully? The patch context in stable trees was different to that moment so should the duplicate have been expected to fail to be applied? -- Fedor
