Dear Ben, On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 9:59 PM, Roger Shimizu <rogershim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Kernel Maintainer, > > On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de> > wrote: >> Shawn Guo the Linux kernel maintainer of ARM/Freescale IMX / MXC ARM >> architecture has accepted my appended patch 0001-ARM... to change the >> model id of the Wandboard Quad Rev B1 and the Wandboard Dual Rev B1. >> >> See >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/14/34 >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/2/7/270 >> >> I suggest to add the patch to >> linux-source-4.3 (debian/patches/bugfix/arm) >> and to update flash-kernel (patch 0001-db... appended). > > I also have a few device-tree "fixes", as well as "for-next" applied > by upstream sub-system maintainer. > For "fixes", some of those're already got merged into linus's 4.5-rc > tree, and will, AFAIK, be backported to each related/affected stable > kernel, and finally reach Debian's stable kernel; for "for-next", it's > waiting for the next merge window (to say, 4.6). > > I also want to know what's debian's kernel policy [0] on backporting > those device-tree file. > > Please help to clarify. Thank you! > > [0]: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernelPatchAcceptanceGuidelines
Could you help to comment on this, please? If you think backporting those device-tree to "master"/"sid" is fine, I can handle both the patch mention in this thread and a few Linkstation device-tree patch I submitted. Thank you! -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 17B3ACB1
