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

[Jakub Kicinski]

On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 01:54:05 +0200 Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> Yeah, I think Florian just wants netconsole to work in stable kernels,
> which is a fair point. As for my 16-line patch that I suggested to him
> in the initial reply, what do you think, would that be a "stable"
> candidate? We would be introducing a fairly user-visible change
> (removing one step that is mentioned as necessary in the documentation),
> do you think it would benefit the users more to also have that behavior
> change backported to all LTS kernels, or just keep it as something new
> for v5.11? 

Yeah, I'd think that's too risky for a backport.