Re: [PATCH for 4.9 39/59] arm: dts: mt2701: Add subsystem clock controller device nodes

From: Matthias Brugger
Date: Mon Sep 18 2017 - 06:28:57 EST




On 09/18/2017 01:20 AM, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 01:15:43PM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
On 09/14/2017 05:51 PM, Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin) wrote:
From: James Liao <jamesjj.liao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit f235c7e7a75325f28a33559a71f25a0eca6112db ]

Add MT2701 subsystem clock controllers, inlcude mmsys, imgsys,
vdecsys, hifsys, ethsys and bdpsys.

Signed-off-by: James Liao <jamesjj.liao@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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arch/arm/boot/dts/mt2701.dtsi | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)


It's not clear to me which bug in v4.9.y you are fixing with this. Can
you please explain.

Hi Matthias,

Note that beyond bug fixes, stable kernel rules also allow for:

"""
- New device IDs and quirks are also accepted.
"""

In general, patches that enable devices which use existing in-kernel drivers are also accepted to the stable kernel tree.

If this is not the case here, or you have a reason to keep it out, please let me know.

Hm, I checked linux-4.9.y and it lacks commit:
e9862118272a ("clk: mediatek: Add MT2701 clock support")

Which got's merged in v4.10, so this patch has no effect at all.
What do I miss?

Regards,
Matthias