RE: [PATCH 0/3] dmaengine: idxd: Error path fixes

Yu, Fenghua posted 3 patches 1 year, 4 months ago
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RE: [PATCH 0/3] dmaengine: idxd: Error path fixes
Posted by Yu, Fenghua 1 year, 4 months ago
Hi, Reinette,

> It is not clear to me if these are appropriate for stable so I am not including the
> stable team. Please let me know if you think otherwise and I can add the
> necessary Cc. With the refactoring through the history of the driver I was not
> able to identify a Fixes: candidate for all. Patch #3 does look to be a potentially
> complicated backport.

It would be better to add Cc: stable because they cause series issues.

In patch 3, you may add Fixes: 403a2e236538. This is in 5.16. 5.17 and later support
SVA. We don't need to backport to too early versions.

Thanks.

-Fenghua
Re: [PATCH 0/3] dmaengine: idxd: Error path fixes
Posted by Reinette Chatre 1 year, 4 months ago
Hi Fenghua,

On 12/2/2022 1:32 PM, Yu, Fenghua wrote:
> Hi, Reinette,
> 
>> It is not clear to me if these are appropriate for stable so I am not including the
>> stable team. Please let me know if you think otherwise and I can add the
>> necessary Cc. With the refactoring through the history of the driver I was not
>> able to identify a Fixes: candidate for all. Patch #3 does look to be a potentially
>> complicated backport.
> 
> It would be better to add Cc: stable because they cause series issues.

Thank you. Will do.

> 
> In patch 3, you may add Fixes: 403a2e236538. This is in 5.16. 5.17 and later support
> SVA. We don't need to backport to too early versions.

ok. Thank you very much.

Reinette