On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 02:29:54PM -0700, Julia Filipchuk wrote:
On 9/3/2025 1:28 PM, John Harrison wrote:
Does this count as a fix? If we are just extending a workaround to apply to more platforms, that is not a bug fix of the workaround. It is more of a new platform enabling patch. Indeed, if you send this patch as a backported fix to older kernels, those older trees might not support the new platform. Which is therefore unnecessary backport work and extra confusion because the tree is now claiming to support a platform which it actually does not.
Possibly not. Just intending to send this to the current mainline 6.17 with backport not necessary. The workaround would still apply if ever loaded with older kernel.
I would like to see this to get into fixes and brought into 6.17.
MattA