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

Andrew Lunn
2020-09-07T17:25:02Z

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