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

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Nov 30 2023 - 17:30:11 EST


On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:00:32 -0800 Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> 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.

OK, I'll change it to just 6.4's 7b884b7f24b4 to simplify life.

> 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.

It is indeed nichey :)