Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.1 8/9] arm64: dts: allwinner: h616: Add USB nodes

[Sasha Levin]

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@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@xxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > [ 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