Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 0/6] net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Fix set channel operation

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Tue Dec 06 2022 - 06:50:03 EST


On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 12:15:17PM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote:
> On 06/12/2022 12:05, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 11:44:13AM +0200, Roger Quadros wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> This contains a critical bug fix for the recently merged suspend/resume
> >> support [1] that broke set channel operation. (ethtool -L eth0 tx <n>)
> >>
> >> As there were 2 dependent patches on top of the offending commit [1]
> >> first revert them and then apply them back after the correct fix.
> >
> > Why did you chose revert and reapply almost same patch instead of simply
> > fixing what is missing?
>
> v1 & 2 of this series were doing that but it was difficult to review.
> This is because we are taking a different approach so we have to undo
> most of the things done earlier.
>
> It was suggested during review that reverting and fresh patch was better.

Thanks.