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    SubjectRe: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 30/51] irqchip/gic: Make quirks matching conditional on init return value
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    On 22/11/17 22:25, alexander.levin@verizon.com wrote:
    > From: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    >
    > [ Upstream commit 9d111d49106b61f5a652d5418e85d8741b1a0427 ]
    >
    > As it turns out, the IIDR is not sufficient to distinguish between GICv3
    > implementations when it comes to enabling quirks. So update the prototype
    > of the init() hook to return a bool, and interpret a 'false' return value
    > as no match, in which case the 'enabling workaround' log message should
    > not be printed.
    >
    > Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
    > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
    > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>

    What is the point of backporting this patch? It's only use is to enable
    a workaround that is not a pre-4.15 candidate.

    Same for its equivalent in the 4.9 tree.

    Thanks,

    M.
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