linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] A few minor fw

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Message-ID: <2024102457-manager-counting-ff68@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 09:08:06 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@...gle.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
	Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] A few minor fw_devlink fixes

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 11:13:41PM -0700, Saravana Kannan wrote:
> Probably easiest for Greg to pull in these changes?
> 
> PSA: Do not pull any of these patches into stable kernels. fw_devlink
> had a lot of changes that landed in the last year. It's hard to ensure
> cherry-picks have picked up all the dependencies correctly. If any of
> these really need to get cherry-picked into stable kernels, cc me and
> wait for my explicit Ack.

You can do that with the correct tag in the commit as per the stable
documentation if you really want to :)

But why would these not be able to go backwards?  What changed to
require them now and not be ok for older kernels?

thanks,

greg k-h