Re: [PATCH] ARM: dts: am335x-sancloud-bbe: Fix PHY mode for ethernet

From: Tony Lindgren
Date: Tue Oct 08 2019 - 12:52:00 EST


* Jeroen Hofstee <jhofstee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [191008 16:43]:
> Hello Tony,
>
> On 10/8/19 6:14 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Jeroen Hofstee <jhofstee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [191008 16:03]:
> >> Hello Tony,
> >>
> >> On 10/8/19 4:23 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> >>> * Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@xxxxxx> [191003 02:32]:
> >>>> On 03/10/2019 11:16, Jeroen Hofstee wrote:
> >>>>> Furthermore 4.19 is fine, so there is no need to include it in stable
> >>>>> and have a note to make sure also other patches are required etc.
> >>>> Hence all above patches went in 5.1 it would be correct to mention only
> >>>> 6d4cd041f0af net: phy: at803x: disable delay only for RGMII mode
> >>> Jeroen, can you please send an updated patch with the fixes
> >>> tag changed?
> >>>
> >> For completeness, there is no "Fixes tag" as you mentioned.
> >> The commit only refers to another commit which introduces
> >> a problem.
> > Well please add the fixes tag, that way this will get
> > properly applied to earlier stable kernels too :)
>
> But 4.19 is fine, this is an issue in 5.1 as in EOL...
> I really don't understand why I should waste time
> to figure out what happened exactly during the 5.1
> release cycle...

Hmm so what's the issue with just adding the fixes tag Grygorii
suggested:

6d4cd041f0af ("net: phy: at803x: disable delay only for RGMII mode")

No need to dig further?

Regards,

Tony