Re: [PATCH 9/9] dt-bindings: PCI: qcom,pcie-x1e80100: Add missing required power-domains

[Johan Hovold]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 01:08:27PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 05:46:30PM +0100, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 04:40:46PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > Power domains should be required for PCI, so the proper SoC supplies are
> > > turned on.
> > > 
> > > Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I have a feeling I've pointed this out before, but these kind of binding
> > patches really does not seem to qualify for stable backporting (e.g.
> > does not "fix a real bug that bothers people").
> 
> Presumably if someone omits power-domain and the driver doesn't work, 
> then it's a bug affecting them.

Yeah, and any such devicetree source fix would be a candidate for stable
backporting.
 
> I'm fine with dropping the stable tag because it will still most likely 
> get picked up with the Fixes tag. :)

Heh. I skimmed the 6.16 stable branch and it seems it was mostly
explicitly tagged binding patches that ended up being backported.

Johan