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From: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@baylibre.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-amlogic@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 5/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: detect LPA corruption
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 17:22:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1512663751.7042.22.camel@baylibre.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171207161248.GN24750@lunn.ch>

On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 17:12 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Would it be Ok if send patches 1 to 5 to net ?
> > and 6 to 8 separately on net-next ?
> 
> No. The rules for stable is that a patch must really fix something and
> be minimal.
> 
> Documentation/process/stable-kernel-rules.rst 
> 
> What might be best is to develop a minimal, but ugly patch for stable.
> Get it applied. Around a week later, net will be merged into
> net-next. You can then have a 'revert' patch, followed by this series
> making it nice and clean.

Looks like a plan. Will do.
Thanks Andrew.

> 
>        Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-07 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-07 14:27 [PATCH net-next v2 0/8] phy: net: meson-gxl: clean-up and improvements Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 14:27 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: check phy_write return value Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 15:34   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-07 14:27 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: define control registers Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 14:27 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: add read and write helpers for bank registers Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 15:46   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-07 15:49     ` Neil Armstrong
2017-12-07 15:51     ` Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 16:02       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-08  9:11         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-12-07 14:27 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: use genphy_config_init Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 15:46   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-07 14:27 ` [PATCH net-next v2 5/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: detect LPA corruption Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 15:34   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-07 15:42     ` Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 16:12       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-07 16:22         ` Jerome Brunet [this message]
2017-12-07 14:27 ` [PATCH net-next v2 6/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: leave CONFIG_A6 untouched Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 15:49   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-07 15:56     ` Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 14:27 ` [PATCH net-next v2 7/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: add interrupt support Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 15:54   ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-07 16:04     ` Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 16:07       ` Andrew Lunn
2017-12-07 14:27 ` [PATCH net-next v2 8/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: join the authors Jerome Brunet
2017-12-07 15:55   ` Andrew Lunn

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