Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:19:52 -0300 | From | Jason Gunthorpe <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.8 55/62] RDMA/efa: Add EFA 0xefa1 PCI ID |
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 03:53:22PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 04:40:36PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:14:16PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > > > From: Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com> > > > > > > [ Upstream commit d4f9cb5c5b224dca3ff752c1bb854250bf114944 ] > > > > > > Add support for 0xefa1 devices. > > > > > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200722140312.3651-5-galpress@amazon.com > > > Reviewed-by: Shadi Ammouri <sammouri@amazon.com> > > > Reviewed-by: Yossi Leybovich <sleybo@amazon.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org> > > > drivers/infiniband/hw/efa/efa_main.c | 6 ++++-- > > > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > Wait, what? Why is this being autosel'd? > > Stable trees try to pick up device enablement patches (such as patches > that add PCI IDs). I suppose that AUTOSEL get pretty eager to grab > those.
Is it so common that old drivers will work with new HW with just a PCI_ID update?
I would have guessed that is the minority situation
Jason
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