On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 06:53:09AM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 19.09.23 18:00, Johan Hovold wrote:
On Tue, Sep 19, 2023 at 05:40:18PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote:
You also seem to have made up new stable kernel rules
No, it was me who changed the text, as I saw people struggling with it and noticed that's partly due to problems in the text. But just like with code changes there's always a risk that slight changes to a text result in unwanted effects. Not yet sure if that's the case here.
No, the updated text is just fine. My point was that Sasha's wish to backport devicetree changes to enable hardware features violates the stable kernel rules.
as adding device tree nodes clearly doesn't fit the description in stable-kernel-rules.rst:
It must either fix a real bug that bothers people or just add a device ID.
(This used to say "New device IDs and quirks are also accepted.")
I just put the old formulation in parentheses for reference to avoid having anyone think this was something new.
Johan