Re: [PATCHv3 net 2/2] net: asix: init mdiobus from one function

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Mar 10 2023 - 01:16:54 EST


On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 11:53:54 -0800 Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 11:30 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I hope the maintainers can apply both to net-next and only apply the
> > > first to net branch.
> >
> > Hi Grant
> >
> > Please take a look at
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-netdev.html
> >
> > Please submit the first patch to net. Then wait a week for net to be
> > merged into net-next, and submit the second patch to net-next.
>
> Thanks Andrew!
> I read maintainer-netdev.html when Jakub pointed me at it a few days
> ago. He also instructed me to use "net" but didn't specify for the
> second patch - so I assumed both patches.

I did:

Keep patch 2 locally for about a week (we merge fixes and cleanup
branches once a week around Thu, and the two patches depend on each
other).

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230307164736.37ecb2f9@xxxxxxxxxx/

But the process is a bit confusing. I'll take patch 1 in now, please
repost patch with net-next on/after Friday March 17th.