linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scpi: Add hardware dependencies

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Message-ID: <5b17c4ed-4402-2f63-3fc5-48558ae75301@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 27 Jan 2017 14:22:11 +0000
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:     Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
Cc:     Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <tixy@...aro.org>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: arm_scpi: Add hardware dependencies

On 27/01/17 08:53, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Hi Sudeep,
> 
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:15:45 +0000, Sudeep Holla wrote:

[...]

>> and I don't think patch is
>> really fixing anything in that particular commit. e.g. what if x86 had
>> MAILBOX enabled, that patch changes nothing. So definitely not stable
>> material.
> 
> It's not fixing a build breakage, if that's what you were worried
> about. I agree it's not stable material and I did not Cc stable. For
> me, Cc: stable@ and Fixes: are not correlated.
> 

I understand and I think Greg had replied which is much clear than what
I was trying to tell very vaguely.

>> You can drop the fixes tag and add my ack. Please post it to
>> arm@...nel.org, so that ARM SoC team can pick this up directly.
> 
> I can't see this address in MAINTAINERS.
> 

Ah yes, since I don't have any other patches I asked you to send it
directly to the email where ARM SoC picks up the patches most of the
time(the review still happens on the std. list, it's just one email
for the group of maintainer where the co-ordinate so that it's not missed.

If you stick my ack and post there along with the mailing list, I will
request them to pick it up directly instead of me sending pull request.

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep