Re: [PATCH 6.18 0000/1624] 6.18.40-rc2 review

[Danilo Krummrich]

On Thu Jul 23, 2026 at 5:43 PM CEST, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> I suggest dropping commit
>
>   d8fa174e21c8 ("gpu: nova-core: vbios: read BitToken using FromBytes")
>
> for now -- it was not marked for stable, and as far as I know, there are
> no production users of Nova, especially in stable kernels.

Yes, we can just drop the commit. In general, for now we should only backport
nova patches that could get into the way of testing stable releases in one or
the other way.

> If we want to fix the bug, then we may want a custom minimal patch.

Yeah, I don't think there's much value; in the best case it fixes something that
isn't used in production anyways, and in the worst case it causes noise if it
breaks the build.

> I hope that helps!

Thanks!