Re: [PATCH] arm64: dts: marvell: espressobin: Add ethernet switch aliases

Pali Rohár
2020-09-08T07:48:54Z

On Monday 07 September 2020 19:23:45 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 06:13:16PM +0200, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > On Monday 07 September 2020 17:43:53 Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > > I would not say it is a "new feature". But rather that patch in this
> > > > email fixes issue that Linux kernel did not set correct MAC address for
> > > > DSA slave ports. I think it is something which could be backported also
> > > > to stable releases as "ignoring" vendor/factory MAC address is not
> > > > correct behavior.
> > >
> > > Hi Pali
> > >
> > > The rules for stable are here:
> > >
> > > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.8/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
> > >
> > > Do you think it fits?
> > >
> > > Andrew
> >
> > Hello Andrew! I think it fits into those rules. As I wrote it fixes real
> > bug that Linux kernel does not use correct MAC address for particular
> > DSA slaves / ethernet ports.
>
> O.K, then:
>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
>
> Andrew

Ok! Andrew, I would like to ask another question, how to correctly
define that this patch depends on a2c7023f7075c? I specified it in
human-readable part of commit description, but for backporting it would
also need some machine-readable format. So patch would not be
occasionally backported to older/stable kernel where a2c7023f7075c is
not available.