Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: dpaa2-ethsw: cleanup of link state and MAC addresses

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jul 15 2020 - 10:10:24 EST


On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 04:34:25PM +0300, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> This patch set is cleaning up the link state handling of the switch
> ports in patches 1-4. The last two patches are setting up the MAC
> addresses of the switch ports automatically so that the user is not
> forced to manually add them before adding them to a bridge.

This feels like adding new functionality to this code. What is keeping
it from getting out of staging at this point in time? I would prefer
for it to be moved out before adding new stuff to it.

thanks,

greg k-h