Re: [PATCH net] hsr: Avoid holding seqnr_lock while transmitting packets

[Felix Maurer]

Hi Hangbin, hi Simon,

On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 08:42:30PM +0800, Hangbin Liu wrote:
> Hi Simon,
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 10:43:25AM +0100, Simon Horman wrote:
> [ ... ]
> > Simon says:
> >
> > I don't think the advice on how to annotate this is correct
> >
> > Tags trump freeform text, but Depends-on is a not a standard tag and as
> > such should not be used.
> >
> > I believe that the correct approach would be a tag like this:
> >
> >   Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # aae9d6b616b5: hsr: Implement more robust duplicate discard for HSR
> >
> > Link: https://docs.kernel.org/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#option-1
>
> Thanks, I will update with this.

Thank you for the patch! Just to let you know, there is a patch
addressing the same thing in an in-flight patchset [1]. Unfortunately, I
didn't have a lot of time to review in the last weeks, so I'll just
leave this note here so you can coordinate if necessary :)

Thanks,
   Felix


[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260803222211.877-3-xiexinet@xxxxxxxxx/