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

[Vladimir Oltean]

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 04:04:49PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I retract my charges then. Florian, depending on how quickly you
have time to resend, I might be able to double-test your patch tonight
before I go to sleep.