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Date:   Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:30:07 -0800
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To:     Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts/gdb: Fix lx-device-list-bus and
 lx-device-list-class
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On Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:00:32 -0800 Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com> 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 :)