Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.5 096/542] powerpc/powernv/ioda: Fix ref count for devices with their own PE

[Sasha Levin]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 09:49:41AM +0100, Frederic Barrat wrote:
> Le 14/02/2020 à 16:41, Sasha Levin a écrit :
> > From: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 05dd7da76986937fb288b4213b1fa10dbe0d1b33 ]
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Upstream commit 05dd7da76986937fb288b4213b1fa10dbe0d1b33 doesn't 
> really need to go to stable (any of 4.19, 5.4 and 5.5). While it's 
> probably safe, the patch replaces a refcount leak by another one, 
> which makes sense as part of the full series merged in 5.6-rc1, but 
> isn't terribly useful standalone on the current stable branches.

I'll drop it, thank you.

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Thanks,
Sasha