On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 01:08:27PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 05:46:30PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 04:40:46PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > Power domains should be required for PCI, so the proper SoC supplies are
> > > turned on.
> > >
> > > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> >
> > I have a feeling I've pointed this out before, but these kind of binding
> > patches really does not seem to qualify for stable backporting (e.g.
> > does not "fix a real bug that bothers people").
>
> Presumably if someone omits power-domain and the driver doesn't work,
> then it's a bug affecting them.
Yeah, and any such devicetree source fix would be a candidate for stable
backporting.
> I'm fine with dropping the stable tag because it will still most likely
> get picked up with the Fixes tag. :)
Heh. I skimmed the 6.16 stable branch and it seems it was mostly
explicitly tagged binding patches that ended up being backported.
Johan