Hello Laurentiu, Am 31.05.19 um 18:46 schrieb Laurentiu Tudor: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> >> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 7:15 PM >> >> Hi Laurentiu, >> >> Am 30.05.19 um 16:19 schrieb laurentiu.tu...@nxp.com: >>> This patch series contains several fixes in preparation for SMMU >>> support on NXP LS1043A and LS1046A chips. Once these get picked up, >>> I'll submit the actual SMMU enablement patches consisting in the >>> required device tree changes. >> >> Have you thought through what will happen if this patch ordering is not >> preserved? In particular, a user installing a future U-Boot update with >> the DTB bits but booting a stable kernel without this patch series - >> wouldn't that regress dpaa then for our customers? >> > > These are fixes for issues that popped out after enabling SMMU. > I do not expect them to break anything.
That was not my question! You're missing my point: All your patches are lacking a Fixes header in their commit message, for backporting them, to avoid _your DT patches_ breaking the driver on stable branches! Regards, Andreas -- SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg)
