On 10/20/2025 4:06 AM, Greg KH wrote:
On Sat, Oct 18, 2025 at 11:56:40AM -0500, Adrian Yip wrote:
Hi everyone,
This is a patch series of backports from a upstream commit:
c760bcda8357 ("drm/amd: Check whether secure display TA loaded successfully")to the following stable kernel trees:
- 6.17.y
- 6.12.y
- 6.6.y
- 6.1.y
Each patch applied without conflicts.
Compiling tests will be done for patches as I send them in. I have not tested backports personally, but Shuah khan has Kindly offered to test them.
This is my first patch, please do let me know if there are any corrections or criticisms, I will take them to heart.
Meta-comment, do not send a "patch series" that can not all be applied to the same tree. When applying a series of patches (1-4 as sent here), that implies that all 4 go to the same place. That's not the case here, so I need to pick out the patches individually some how, and apply patch 1 to one tree, 2 to another, and so on. It looks a bit odd to apply patch 4/4 to only one tree, right?
I've picked these apart this time, but next time, just send 4 patches separately, not as a series, as you can see others do on the stable list, and all will be fine.
thanks,
greg k-h
Thank you Greg, I appreciate your time and comments. I will be applying your feedback to future patches, and the explanation makes perfect sense. Sorry for the inconvenience.
There may also be some confusion with me saying Shuah offering to test them. For some context, Shuah told me about this fix after she noticed it on her machine and gave me the opportunity to make the patch. The offer to test them was given to me along with it, but I don't believe the tests were done on each of the stable trees yet.
I'm writing to make sure these patches are added responsibly. Feel free to ignore if this isn't a problem. Thank you again.
Respectfully,
Adrian Yip