Re: OMAP4 HDMI PHY bug work-around for stable

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Feb 29 2012 - 10:06:19 EST


On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 11:07:24AM +0200, Tomi Valkeinen wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-28 at 08:47 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Sorry, but I don't accept pull requests. I need patches in email form,
> > as described in the file, Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt. Please
> > feel free to send them from your git tree that way.
>
> Ah, I somehow missed that txt when googling about the stable kernel.
> Thanks for pointing it out.
>
> > That seems like a lot of backporting for a single fix, but I'll be glad
> > to review them when you send them.
>
> This is something that is not quite clear to me:
>
> Should I strive for keeping the patches for stable as close as possible
> to the ones in mainline, and thus possibly being forced to take other
> extra patches with the actual fix as I did here

Yes. If that is what is happening here, that's fine, just tell me.

> or
>
> should I just rather cook up a new patch which just fixes the problem
> without caring about any cleanups etc. that are in the mainline, and
> thus possibly creating a rather different patch compared to mainline's
> version?

No, the first one.

thanks,

greg k-h
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