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Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:13:35 +0100
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Thor Thayer <thor.thayer@linux.intel.com>
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        Meng Li <Meng.Li@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] EDAC/altera: Use fast register IO for S10 IRQs
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 12:52:18PM -0600, Thor Thayer wrote:
> This patch should to be applied to the stable branches to fix the issue in
> older branches.

Do stable folks pick up stable fixes which are not upstream?

AFAIK, a patch needs to be upstream to be backported to stable first.

> Although I knew the To: had to be to stable@vger.kernel.org,
> I wasn't sure how that worked with the EDAC reviewers. This was a weird
> situation where I couldn't fix the upstream because it had already been
> fixed a different way.

Yah.

> Meng sent me the notification and the patch with a SOB so I put Meng first
> in the order.

If he sent you the patch, then he's the author and you need to keep his

From: Meng Li <Meng.Li@windriver.com>

at the beginning of the file so that git preserves his authorship.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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