Re: [PATCH 4.19] net/mlx5e: Don't support phys switch id if not in switchdev mode

From: Saeed Mahameed
Date: Thu Sep 10 2020 - 14:48:02 EST


On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 15:13 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 07:05:42PM -0700, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > From: Roi Dayan <roid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Support for phys switch id ndo added for representors and if
> > we do not have representors there is no need to support it.
> > Since each port return different switch id supporting this
> > block support for creating bond over PFs and attaching to bridge
> > in legacy mode.
> >
> > This bug doesn't exist upstream as the code got refactored and the
> > netdev api is totally different.
> >
> > Fixes: cb67b832921c ("net/mlx5e: Introduce SRIOV VF representors")
> > Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > Sorry for submitting a non upstream patch, but this bug is
> > bothering some users on 4.19-stable kernels and it doesn't exist
> > upstream, so i hope you are ok with backporting this one liner
> > patch.
>
> Also queued up to 4.9.y and 4.14.y.
>

Hi Greg, the request was originally made for 4.19.y kernel,
I see the patch in 4.9 and 4.14 but not in 4.19 can we push it to 4.19
as well ?

Thanks,
Saeed.