On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 06:22:05PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
On 5/9/2021 12:17 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
On Sun, 9 May 2021 at 19:30, Florian Fainelli f.fainelli@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Greg, Sasha,
These patches were not marked with a Fixes: tag but they do fix booting ARM 32-bit platforms that have specific FDT placement and would cause boot failures like these:
I don't have any objections to backporting these changes, but it would be helpful if you could explain why this is a regression. Also, you'll need to pull in the following patch as well
This does not qualify as a regression in that it has never worked for the specific platform that I have shown above until your 3 commits came in and fixed that particular FDT placement. To me this qualifies as a bug fix, and given that the 3 (now 4) commits applied without hunks, it seems reasonable to me to back port those to stable.
As this isn't a regression, why not just use 5.12 on these platforms? Why is 5.4 and 5.10 needed?
thanks,
greg k-h