Re: Regression fix not progressing towards mainline/stable

[Péter Ujfalusi]

Hi Thorsten,

On 08/08/2023 09:10, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> Hi everyone, I noticed a regression fix that afaics lingers in the
> thesofproject's git repo instead of progressing towards the stable trees
> and wondered what's up here.
>
> I'm talking about about the fix "ASoC: SOF: intel: hda: Clean up link
> DMA for IPC3 during stop" for this ticket:
> https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/4455
> 
> Two more tickets about it:
> https://github.com/thesofproject/linux/issues/4482
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217673
> 
> It seems the fix is ready and reviewed for two weeks now, but not even
> in -next by now. That's not how it should be for regression fixes, as
> per https://docs.kernel.org/process/handling-regressions.html it ideally
> should be in -stable soon or already. Is this a mistake, am I missing
> something, or is there a good reason for this?

We take regressions (and user reports) seriously and trying our best to
provide fixes asap.
We do prioritize bug fixes over features but in this case for some
reason the review process took longer than it usually does and the patch
has not been sent upstream. Patches must pass the review before they put
to the upstream queue.

I will be sending the fix in few minutes after testing it on top of next.

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Péter