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

[Levin, Alexander (Sasha Levin)]

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>
>>---
>>  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.


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Thanks,
Sasha