Re: [PATCH] EDAC/altera: Use fast register IO for S10 IRQs

[Borislav Petkov]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:52:18PM -0600, Thor Thayer wrote:
> This patch should to be applied to the stable branches to fix the issue in
> older branches.

Do stable folks pick up stable fixes which are not upstream?

AFAIK, a patch needs to be upstream to be backported to stable first.

> Although I knew the To: had to be to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> I wasn't sure how that worked with the EDAC reviewers. This was a weird
> situation where I couldn't fix the upstream because it had already been
> fixed a different way.

Yah.

> Meng sent me the notification and the patch with a SOB so I put Meng first
> in the order.

If he sent you the patch, then he's the author and you need to keep his

From: Meng Li <Meng.Li@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

at the beginning of the file so that git preserves his authorship.

Thx.

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