Re: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: Fix lx-device-list-bus and lx-device-list-class

[Florian Fainelli]

On 11/30/23 13:51, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 20:33:16 -0800 Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > After the conversion to bus_to_subsys() and class_to_subsys(), the gdb
> > scripts listing the system buses and classes respectively was broken,
> > fix those by returning the subsys_priv pointer and have the various
> > caller de-reference either the 'bus' or 'class' structure members
> > accordingly.
> >
> > Fixes: 83b9148df2c9 ("driver core: bus: bus iterator cleanups")
> > Fixes: 7b884b7f24b4 ("driver core: class.c: convert to only use class_to_subsys")
>
> I don't know how -stable maintainers handle more than one Fixes:.  One
> of the above was released in 6.3, the other in 6.4.  What are they to
> do?

Neither are stable kernels fortunately, so any kernel >= 6.4 where both 
issues are present should be able to cleanly cherry-pick the change.

I suppose this should have called for me to issue two patches, one 
fixing lx-device-list-bus and the other one fixing lx-device-list-class, 
though it seems like this is such a niche usage that it may not matter 
that much.

> My opinion: developers should use Fixes: as a request to -stable
> maintainers to target a particular kernel version (and later).
>
> If the developers indeed want to fix both kernel versions then wouldn't
> two patches be best?

They probably would, or I could submit a targeted fix for 6.3 for instance.
--
Florian

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