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.
OpenWRT is using 4.14 kernel and only recently there was a new release where is 5.4 kernel.
So these old kernels are still widely used.
But I do not think that spending time on backporting whole emulated bridge to these kernels is something very important...