From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932990AbbD0SJj (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:09:39 -0400 Received: from devils.ext.ti.com ([198.47.26.153]:57637 "EHLO devils.ext.ti.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932817AbbD0SJg (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:09:36 -0400 Message-ID: <553E7B64.3080407@ti.com> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 14:09:40 -0400 From: Murali Karicheri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120430 Thunderbird/12.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Miller CC: , Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1] net: netcp: remove call to netif_carrier_(on/off) for MAC to Phy interface References: <1429902101-2911-1-git-send-email-m-karicheri2@ti.com> <20150425.154856.1696991150241343700.davem@davemloft.net> <553E6CD7.9040409@ti.com> <20150427.132318.64451627276298303.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20150427.132318.64451627276298303.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/27/2015 01:23 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Murali Karicheri > Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:07:35 -0400 > >> On 04/25/2015 03:48 PM, David Miller wrote: >>> From: Murali Karicheri >>> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 15:01:41 -0400 >>> >>>> Currently when interface type is MAC to Phy, netif_carrier_(on/off) >>>> is called which is not needed as Phy lib already updates the carrier >>>> status to net stack. This is needed only for other interface types >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri >>> >>> net-next is not open for submissions yet >> David, >> >> Do I need to re-submit this patch when the net-next gets opened for >> this? This is essentially a bug fix and can be applied to current > > If it's really a bug fix, then you shouldn't target it at net-next. > > I'll never understand why people do things like this. Ok. My bad. I will re-send it with proper prefix for applying to v4.1. -- Murali Karicheri Linux Kernel, Texas Instruments