Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: (pmbus_core) Check adapter PEC support

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi Paul,

On 12/1/21 7:58 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Guenter,
>
>
> Am 06.06.21 um 14:50 schrieb Guenter Roeck:
> > On Sat, Jun 05, 2021 at 07:27:02AM +0200, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > > From: Madhava Reddy Siddareddygari <msiddare@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > Currently, for Packet Error Checking (PEC) only the controller
> > > is checked for support. This causes problems on the cisco-8000
> > > platform where a SMBUS transaction errors are observed. This is
> > > because PEC has to be enabled only if both controller and
> > > adapter support it.
> > >
> > > Added code to check PEC capability for adapter and enable it
> > > only if both controller and adapter supports PEC.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Madhava Reddy Siddareddygari <msiddare@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > [Upstream from SONiC https://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/215]
> > > Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Applied.
>
> Thank you very much. Would it be alright, if I asked the stable series maintainers to backport this patch to the Linux 5.10 LTS series?
That is not how it works. The stable maintainers will apply
a backport if you prepare one and send it to the stable
mailing list, but they won't do the work for you.

Having said that, if you want to provide such a backport,
sure, go ahead.

Guenter