Re: [PATCH net] microchip: lan865x: fix missing ndo_eth_ioctl handler to support PHY ioctl

[Parthiban.Veerasooran]

On 22/08/25 6:29 pm, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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>> By the way, is there a possibility to submit or apply this patch to the
>> older stable kernels as well, so that users on those versions can also
>> benefit from this feature?
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> This is the sort of patch the machine learning bot picks up for back
> porting to stable. The Fixes: tag is only one indicator it looks for,
> it being a one liner and the words in the commit message might trigger
> it as well.
Thank you for the explanation. As per your suggestion, I’ve moved this 
feature patch to net-next, so I assume there’s no possibility of getting 
it into the older stable kernels, as it is not a fix—is that correct?

Best regards,
Parthiban V
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>          Andrew