From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f47.google.com ([74.125.82.47]:35957 "EHLO mail-wm0-f47.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751301AbcDAJlY (ORCPT ); Fri, 1 Apr 2016 05:41:24 -0400 Received: by mail-wm0-f47.google.com with SMTP id 127so13664435wmu.1 for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 02:41:23 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [patch added to 3.12-stable] bnx2x: Add new device ids under the Qlogic vendor To: Yuval Mintz , "stable@vger.kernel.org" References: <1459499782-1517-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> <1459499782-1517-3-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: David Miller From: Jiri Slaby Message-ID: <56FE4240.1010607@suse.cz> Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:41:20 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 04/01/2016, 10:59 AM, Yuval Mintz wrote: >> From: Yuval Mintz >> >> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, >> please let us know. >> >> =============== >> >> commit 9c9a6524b5fdf6cb57c9ff627b7f242a6a4e0b00 upstream. >> >> This adds support for 3 new PCI device combinations - 1077:16a1, 1077:16a4 >> and 1077:16ad. >> >> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz >> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller >> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby > > Hi Jiri, > > From the top of my head, I'm not sure 3.12 has the necessary phy code for > supporting the new device IDs; We might find ourselves with dysfunctional > devices. > > I'll have to verify it with our link-team, but it would probably take a couple > of days before I'll have a definite answer. Hi, no problem. I am not going to make a release in the next days. > BTW, why are we pushing for this to be backported to a stable kernel? > Given that it's not really a bug fix. This conforms to - New device IDs and quirks are also accepted. of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt thanks, -- js suse labs