[PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 8/9] arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: Add USB nodes
Sasha Levin
sashal at kernel.org
Fri Dec 23 06:09:26 PST 2022
On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 02:48:29PM +0800, Icenowy Zheng wrote:
>在 2022-12-20星期二的 00:01 +0000,Andre Przywara写道:
>> On Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:09:35 -0500
>> Sasha Levin <sashal at kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> > From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara at arm.com>
>> >
>> > [ Upstream commit f40cf244c3feb4e1a442f8029b691add2c65b3ab ]
>>
>> This is not really a backport candidate:
>> - This is not a fix, but a new feature.
>> - This relies on the H616 USB PHY support patch, which will be only
>> in
>> v6.2 (and won't be backported).
I'll go ahead and drop it.
>> - DT backports are generally not useful to begin with, and should
>> actually not be necessary anyway.
>
>DT changes include fixes and new features. New features are not useful,
>but fixes are useful.
>
>This specific change is a new feature one, not a fix one though.
Right - this is a similar issue to PCI/USB/etc IDs, or quirks - we try
and backport patches that enable new hardware to work (proerly) with
drivers that already exist in the kernel.
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Thanks,
Sasha
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