On Sunday 28 November 2021 15:36:10 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 03:22:43PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
On Sunday 28 November 2021 15:16:49 Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
On Thu, Nov 25, 2021 at 12:04:40AM +0100, Marek Behún wrote:
Hello Greg, Sasha,
this series for 4.19-stable backports all the fixes (and their dependencies) for Armada 3720 PCIe driver. These include:
- fixes (and their dependencies) for pci-aardvark controller
- fixes (and their dependencies) for pinctrl-armada-37xx driver
- device-tree fixes
Basically all fixes from upstream are taken, excluding those that need fix the emulated bridge, since that was introduced after 4.19. (Should we backport it? It concerns only mvebu and aardvark controllers...)
Does anyone care for these old kernels? I doubt it.
Debian oldstable is using 4.19 kernel.
Yes, for older hardware and systems. If this hardware never worked on that kernel, you shouldn't be using old distros on it.
pci-aardvark.c is PCIe controller driver. On this hardware some PCIe cards with 4.14/4.19 kernels are working fine and some only sometimes. Most parts of Armada 3720 HW is usable with 4.19 kernel and I was using Debian kernel on it without issues.
OpenWRT is using 4.14 kernel and only recently there was a new release where is 5.4 kernel.
They are getting closer to a modern kernel release, nice :)
It is not funny, but sad :-( At least these stable backport updates make PCIe cards more stable for users. And hopefully OpenWRT would not revert them as it is common with updates from stable trees...