Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 2 Dec 2013 15:53:06 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3.12 056/212] ahci: add support for IBM Akebono platform device | From | Tejun Heo <> |
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Hello,
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> wrote: >> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au> >> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> >> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > > This one is a little funny. There's really nothing wrong with the > patch itself, nor adding it to 3.12.y, but it seems pretty pointless. > The support for the Akebono board hasn't even landed in 3.13-rcX yet, > and I really doubt it's going to show up in 3.12.y. Seems kind of > superfluous.
I generally automatically cc stable for patches which simply add device IDs because they're low risk and distros / whoever is maintaining older kernel wants to see them. Didn't know it wouldn't work at all in earlier kernels. Please feel free to drop.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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