Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:13:35 +0100 | From | Borislav Petkov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] EDAC/altera: Use fast register IO for S10 IRQs |
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:52:18PM -0600, Thor Thayer wrote: > This patch should to be applied to the stable branches to fix the issue in > older branches.
Do stable folks pick up stable fixes which are not upstream?
AFAIK, a patch needs to be upstream to be backported to stable first.
> Although I knew the To: had to be to stable@vger.kernel.org, > I wasn't sure how that worked with the EDAC reviewers. This was a weird > situation where I couldn't fix the upstream because it had already been > fixed a different way.
Yah.
> Meng sent me the notification and the patch with a SOB so I put Meng first > in the order.
If he sent you the patch, then he's the author and you need to keep his
From: Meng Li <Meng.Li@windriver.com>
at the beginning of the file so that git preserves his authorship.
Thx.
-- Regards/Gruss, Boris.
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