Re: [PATCH RESEND] staging: et131x: Fix errors caused by phydev->addr accesses before initialisation

From: Mark Einon
Date: Mon Aug 11 2014 - 03:43:16 EST


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 01:39:59PM +0800, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:32:55AM +0300, Anca Emanuel wrote:
> > Do you have this hardware ? And did you test this ?
>
> Mark is the maintainer of this driver, I assume he has the hardware, if
> not, I don't care, I trust him :)
>

Hi there,

:) Yes, all tested on hardware.

> > How can you cc stable without an Tested by somebody else ?
>
> Since when is a tested-by a requirement for a stable@ marking? Please
> read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for the details.

As Greg says, easily if you follow those rules.

Cheers,

Mark
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