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Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 13:51:20 +0100
From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@...ux.intel.com>,
	Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	hdegoede@...hat.com, fabrice.gasnier@...s.st.com,
	quic_jackp@...cinc.com, saranya.gopal@...el.com,
	quic_linyyuan@...cinc.com, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
	minhuadotchen@...il.com, johan+linaro@...nel.org, robh@...nel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.7 044/108] usb: typec: ucsi: fix UCSI on buggy
 Qualcomm devices

On Wed, Jan 17, 2024 at 02:17:40PM +0200, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2024 at 10:03, Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 02:39:10PM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > From: Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>
> > >
> > > [ Upstream commit 1d103d6af241dbfc7e11eb9a46dff65db257a37f ]
> > >
> > > On sevral Qualcomm platforms (SC8180X, SM8350, SC8280XP) a call to
> > > UCSI_GET_PDOS for non-PD partners will cause a firmware crash with no
> > > easy way to recover from it. Since we have no easy way to determine
> > > whether the partner really has PD support, shortcut UCSI_GET_PDOS on
> > > such platforms. This allows us to enable UCSI support on such devices.

> > Correct me if I'm wrong Dmitry, but while the commit message makes this
> > sound like a fix, it is not needed unless you backport follow-on patches
> > that enable UCSI on these platforms.
> >
> > So this one can be dropped from all stable queues (unless you're
> > backporting patches that enable new features and that depend on this
> > one).
> 
> Exactly. It didn't have the Fixes: tag. So I'm completely unsure why
> it ended up in the autosel queue at all.

AUTOSEL is Sasha's machine-learning based tool for picking potential
fixes also among commits that lack a Fixes tag.

Johan

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