Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] EDAC/qcom: Get rid of hardcoded register offsets

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 09:21:11PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2023 at 03:22:42PM -0700, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 12:10:32PM +0530, Manivannan Sadhasivam wrote:
> > > The LLCC EDAC register offsets varies between each SoC. Hardcoding the
> > > register offsets won't work and will often result in crash due to
> > > accessing the wrong locations.
> > > 
> > > Hence, get the register offsets from the LLCC driver matching the
> > > individual SoCs.
> > > 
> > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 6.0: 5365cea199c7 ("soc: qcom: llcc: Rename reg_offset structs to reflect LLCC version")
> > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 6.0: c13d7d261e36 ("soc: qcom: llcc: Pass LLCC version based register offsets to EDAC driver")
> > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 6.0
> > 
> > Why is there three Cc: stable here, is this a new format for Fixes:?
> > 
> 
> This is to specify the dependencies to the stable maintainers during backport.

And that format has been documented for well over a decade in:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html

This is nothing new :)

thanks,

greg k-h