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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] Fix the iio-gts-helpers available times table
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To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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On 5/5/24 20:50, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 15:44:26 +0300
> Matti Vaittinen <mazziesaccount@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Fix the available times table sorting in iio-gts-helpers
>>
>> This series contains a fix and test for the sorting of the available times in
>> IIO-gts helpers. Fix was originally developed and posted by Chenyuan Yang.
>>
>> Revision history:
>> 	v1 => v2:
>> 	  - Fix the sender for patch 1/2 (Sic!)
>> 	  - Fix Co-Developed-by tag (drop this from Chenyuan who
>> 	    is the original author)
>> 	  - Fix the From: tag as instructed in:
>> 	    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html
> 
> Am I right in thinking this doesn't matter for existing drivers?

I think this is right. Only couple of in-tree drivers are using these 
helpers for now, and all of them sorted the tables already in driver.

> As such not high priority for back porting?

The bug is pretty nasty as it causes invalid memory accesses. Hence I'd 
like to see this landing in the longterm kernels. It seems to me the GTS 
helpers got merged in 6.4, so getting the fix backported to 6.6 might 
make sense.

> I'll assume that and queue it up for 6.11. If someone shouts I can pull the fix
> forwards, but then we have the mess of chasing the testing in later.

I am sorry Jonathan but I'm not quite sure what you mean by "pulling fix 
forward", or what is the "mess of chasing the testing in later" :)

> Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git and pushed out as testing for 0-day
> to poke at it.

Thanks! Appreciate your work as always!

Yours,
	-- Matti

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Matti Vaittinen
Linux kernel developer at ROHM Semiconductors
Oulu Finland

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