From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56902C43381 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:25:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C53D21872 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:25:09 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1550492709; bh=+8j3gzvg6gLZupciFnp/Uq48h4o0WyAeT+3Xuf9KRk8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=yyNSmWWxYxUgSnCTHMH7AY2CsoPrXPpJhiw+2hm3mQAyV3P+A3VJ9JmE3LX9R3m8b MgBlSCa4RrlDYe6hR1zCmUL1gCCnLoawfQ9QuLY+zAU3FYC/zug1RMRC/bWOk+FjR7 LRkLMP60GLk0PicE9rGpGLwlOxpSvYuMiDFBHSrg= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1730008AbfBRMZI (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2019 07:25:08 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:33972 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1729639AbfBRMZI (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Feb 2019 07:25:08 -0500 Received: from localhost (5356596B.cm-6-7b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2FA73217F5; Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:25:07 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1550492707; bh=+8j3gzvg6gLZupciFnp/Uq48h4o0WyAeT+3Xuf9KRk8=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=m8DuoGUPqyij/XyoNZF6AcWBfAogEUzdndWrBLNqrwqSPOQ9wDacJxvQUDLTh48G9 Gpmt+cyIb/ad2IBnn0B5SMuuXdUINKUJRr7r8O4V6Tppr16ZpJDyb9JQWFUOOHLbpA eF/ZEo+HNQQ9lJptngp4znlECMVPAjTHVLRnZxyo= Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 13:25:05 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Jeff Kirsher Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Anirudh Venkataramanan , Tony Brelinski Subject: Re: [stable 4.19 2/4] ice: Updates to Tx scheduler code Message-ID: <20190218122505.GD30260@kroah.com> References: <20190201205029.11855-1-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <20190201205029.11855-3-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <20190202112850.GC31341@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: stable@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 03:46:26PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > On Sat, 2019-02-02 at 12:28 +0100, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 12:50:27PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > > From: Anirudh Venkataramanan > > > > > > This is a backport of the mainline commit b36c598c999c ("ice: > > > Updates to Tx scheduler code"). This change is required for the > > > driver to work with the latest firmware. Without this patch, > > > the driver fails probe. > > > > Note, this is a big change. You can't have these systems just run > > the > > old firmware? The fact that you require a kernel change for newer > > firmware, isn't the best, you don't provide backwards compatibility > > somehow? > > > > I'm all for adding new device ids and the like to stable kernels, but > > to > > backport new functionality just to get newer hardware to work on > > older > > kernels, is not the goal of the LTS kernel trees. Why can't you just > > have users use 4.20 or newer? There shouldn't be anything keeping > > them > > from doing that and just updating to the latest stable release every > > 4 > > months or so, right? > > Sorry Greg, I am not ignoring you. I have been trying to get more > information and reasoning from others within Intel which needed this > support within the 4.19 kernel. I am hoping I will have a response for > you by Monday. It's been more than one "Monday" now, so I'm dropping this series from my patch queue. thanks, greg k-h