Messages in this thread | | | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: (pmbus_core) Check adapter PEC support | Date | Wed, 1 Dec 2021 11:57:40 -0800 |
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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@cisco.com> >>> >>> 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@cisco.com> >>> [Upstream from SONiC https://github.com/Azure/sonic-linux-kernel/pull/215] >>> Signed-off-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de> >> >> 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
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