Re: [PATCH stable 5.16+ 0/3] backported Realtek DSA driver fixes for 5.16 and 5.17
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu Apr 14 2022 - 07:03:14 EST
On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 07:32:49PM +0200, Alvin Šipraga wrote:
> From: Alvin Šipraga <alsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> These fixes can be applied to both 5.16 and 5.17 - the subtree of
> drivers/net/dsa/realtek is identical save for a few unrelated places.
>
> The main backporting effort was to remove some parts of the patches
> which touched the newly introduced MDIO interface, which was introduced
> in the 5.18 development cycle, and to work around a mass-rename of a
> single variable (smi -> priv). Regrettably this rename will make future
> stable backports equally tedious and hard to automate.
>
> Please let me know if you would like me to send the series again for
> 5.17.
5.16 is now end-of-life, but I've queued these up for 5.17 now, thanks!
greg k-h