Re: [PATCH v3] net: sfp: add SMBus I2C block support

[Jonas Jelonek]

Hi Russell,

On 05.01.26 17:28, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 04:12:42PM +0000, Jonas Jelonek wrote:
>> base-commit: c303e8b86d9dbd6868f5216272973292f7f3b7f1
>> prerequisite-patch-id: ae039dad1e17867fce9182b6b36ac3b1926b254a
> This seems to be almost useless information. While base-commit exists
> in the net-next tree, commit ae039dad1e17867fce9182b6b36ac3b1926b254a
> doesn't exist in either net-next nor net trees.
>
> My guess is you applied Maxime's patch locally, and that is the
> commit ID of that patch.

This was supposed to be the stable patch-id obtained with 
'git patch-id --stable'.

> Given that Maxime's patch is targetting the net tree (because it's
> a fix), and your patch is new development, so is for net-next, you
> either need to:
> - wait until Maxime's patch has been merged, and then the net tree
>   has been merged into net-next.
> or:
> - resend without Maxime's patch.
>
> In either case, please read https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-netdev.html
> In particular, the salient points are:
> - no resends in under 24 hours (see point 1.6.7)
> - specify the tree that your patch is targetting in the subject line
>   (see point 1.6.1) E.g. [PATCH net-next v...] net: blah blah
>
> Thanks.
>

Ack. I'll fix the points you mentioned.
Thanks for your patience.


Best,
Jonas