Re: [PATCH net-next v2 5/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: detect LPA corruption

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Dec 07 2017 - 11:13:00 EST


> Would it be Ok if send patches 1 to 5 to net ?
> and 6 to 8 separately on net-next ?

No. The rules for stable is that a patch must really fix something and
be minimal.

Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst

What might be best is to develop a minimal, but ugly patch for stable.
Get it applied. Around a week later, net will be merged into
net-next. You can then have a 'revert' patch, followed by this series
making it nice and clean.

Andrew