Re: [PATCH] mfd: bd70528: Fix hour register mask

[Lee Jones]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2020, Vaittinen, Matti wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 08:57 +0100, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 07:44:07AM +0000, Vaittinen, Matti wrote:
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to get this in 5.4 stable - while leaving this out
> > > of
> > > current MFD tree and applying the BD71828 series to MFD?
> > 
> > We only take patches that are in Linus's tree for the stable tree,
> > unless there are very big reasons not to do so (i.e. it is totally
> > rewritten in a different way there.)
> > 
> > Once the change/fix is in Linus's tree, then you can backport it to
> > stable in a different way if you want, but you need to give lots of
> > reasons why it is done that way.
> 
> Right. Thanks for the explanation Greg. I have no _strong_ reasons -
> which means I'll split the RTC support patch in BD71828 series into two
> - first of the patches being this fix, second being the BD71828
> support. Then this fix can be taken in 5.4 after it has been merged to
> Linus' tree - the BD71828 support can be omitted from 5.4
> 
> I hope the BD71828 series could still make it to next release - but if
> it wont, then it might be in next after that :]
> 
> Lee, please skip this one, I'll do v10 of the BD71828 series where this
> fix is included as separate fix-patch.

Will look out for it.

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