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

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Mon Nov 16 2020 - 19:16:56 EST


On 11/16/20 4:12 PM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> 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.

Please give it a spin, I can resend tomorrow first thing in the morning.
Thanks!
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Florian