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

[Vaittinen, Matti]

On Fri, 2020-01-17 at 10:10 +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> 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.
> 
Thanks! It should be on it's way through the mail servers :]

Br,
	Matti Vaittinen