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