Re: [PATCH char-misc v2] mei: lb: fix incorrect type in assignment

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 10:47:42AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 10:21:42AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 07, 2026 at 06:43:20AM +0000, Usyskin, Alexander wrote:
> > > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 04:01:30PM +0300, Alexander Usyskin wrote:

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> > > > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > 
> > > > Why cc: stable?  It doesn't actually cause any functional change to the
> > > > code at all, right?  This isn't running on s390, or am I mistaken?
> > > 
> > > This driver is for discrete graphics card, so it may run on non-x86 system, thus all conversions.
> > > 
> > > I've been told that if there is Fixes: for commit that already in stable, I should cc: stable.
> > > If it is not hard rule, I'll drop cc: from the next patch revision.
> > 
> > Cc'ing stable@ is a rule which is documented in-tree. Many developers just omit
> > it for unknown reasons.
> 
> My point is that this is NOT an actual bugfix that needs to be applied
> anywhere except during the next merge window, as all it does is make
> sparse quiet (which is a valid change).  It doesn't do anything "real"
> as this hardware is not on any big-endian systems.

I was not objecting that. My comment was regarding to "if it's not a hard rule".

> Please don't send stuff to stable that does not actually need to be in a
> stable kernel tree.

Fully agree.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko