From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19] net/mlx5e: Don't support phys switch id if not in switchdev mode
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 13:57:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200911115752.GA3717176@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc4effe1bbe6e9c68f4bdd863e3d38cbab52a285.camel@kernel.org>
On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 11:46:36AM -0700, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-08-07 at 15:13 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 07:05:42PM -0700, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> > > From: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
> > >
> > > Support for phys switch id ndo added for representors and if
> > > we do not have representors there is no need to support it.
> > > Since each port return different switch id supporting this
> > > block support for creating bond over PFs and attaching to bridge
> > > in legacy mode.
> > >
> > > This bug doesn't exist upstream as the code got refactored and the
> > > netdev api is totally different.
> > >
> > > Fixes: cb67b832921c ("net/mlx5e: Introduce SRIOV VF representors")
> > > Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
> > > ---
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > Sorry for submitting a non upstream patch, but this bug is
> > > bothering some users on 4.19-stable kernels and it doesn't exist
> > > upstream, so i hope you are ok with backporting this one liner
> > > patch.
> >
> > Also queued up to 4.9.y and 4.14.y.
> >
>
> Hi Greg, the request was originally made for 4.19.y kernel,
> I see the patch in 4.9 and 4.14 but not in 4.19 can we push it to 4.19
> as well ?
Very odd, don't know what happened.
Now fixed up, thanks.
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-07 2:05 [PATCH 4.19] net/mlx5e: Don't support phys switch id if not in switchdev mode Saeed Mahameed
2020-08-07 13:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-10 18:46 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-09-11 11:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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