Re: [PATCH 5.10 113/290] net: dsa: implement a central TX reallocation procedure

[gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 05:06:16PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2021 at 07:56:02PM +0000, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>
> > > Tested-by: Christian Eggers <ceggers@xxxxxxx> # For tail taggers only
> > > Tested-by: Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > 
> > For context, Sasha explains here:
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-commits/msg190151.html
> > (the conversation is somewhat truncated, unfortunately, because
> > stable-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ate my replies)
> > that 13 patches were backported to get the unrelated commit 9200f515c41f
> > ("net: dsa: tag_mtk: fix 802.1ad VLAN egress") to apply cleanly with git-am.
> > 
> > I am not strictly against this, even though I would have liked to know
> > that the maintainers were explicitly informed about it.
> > 
> > Greg, could you make your stable backporting emails include the output
> > of ./get_maintainer.pl into the list of recipients? Thanks.
> 
> Did it not happen here? I've looked at Greg's script[1] and it seemed to
> me like it does go through get_maintainer.pl.
> 
> 
> [1] https://github.com/gregkh/gregkh-linux/blob/master/scripts/generate_cc_list

That's just a script I use for "normal" kernel development when creating
patches, not for stable stuff.

thanks,

greg k-h