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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/9] brcmfmac: firmware: Do not crash on a NULL
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To:     Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>,
        Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
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        Arend van Spriel <aspriel@gmail.com>,
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        Chi-hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@infineon.com>,
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From:   Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
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On 1/19/2022 11:02 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 17.01.2022 17:29, Hector Martin пишет:
>> This unbreaks support for USB devices, which do not have a board_type
>> to create an alt_path out of and thus were running into a NULL
>> dereference.
>>
>> Fixes: 5ff013914c62 ("brcmfmac: firmware: Allow per-board firmware binaries")
>> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@marcan.st>
> 
> Technically, all patches that are intended to be included into next
> stable kernel update require the "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org" tag.

Being the nit picker that I am I would say it is recommended to safe 
yourself extra work, not required, for the reason you give below.

> In practice such patches usually auto-picked by the patch bot, so no
> need to resend.

Regards,
Arend

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