Re: [PATCH net] net: Have netpoll bring-up DSA management interface

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:20:37 -0800 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> >> Florian for you patch specifially - can't we use
> >> netdev_for_each_lower_dev()?  
> > 
> > Looks like I forgot to respond here, yes we could do that because we do
> > call netdev_upper_dev_link() in net/dsa/slave.c. Let me re-post with
> > that done.  
> 
> I remember now there was a reason for me to "open code" this, and this
> is because since the patch is intended to be a bug fix, I wanted it to
> be independent from: 2f1e8ea726e9 ("net: dsa: link interfaces with the
> DSA master to get rid of lockdep warnings")
> 
> which we would be depending on and is only two-ish releases away. Let me
> know if you prefer different fixes for different branches.

Ah, makes sense, we can apply this and then clean up in net-next. Just
mention that in the commit message. FWIW you'll need to repost anyway
once the discussion with Vladimir is resolved, because this is in the
old patchwork instance :)