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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ben@decadent.org.uk
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	florian@openwrt.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [STABLE][3.0][3.2][Add PATCH] phy/fixed: use an unique MDIO bus name
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 14:56:22 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121007.145622.83624305358947187.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1349624019.16173.113.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:33:39 +0100

> Networking stable fixes are normally vetted, backported and bundled up
> by David, so I'll let him decide on this.
> 
> There are a lot more MDIO bus drivers that don't play nicely with
> others, most of which seem to be fixed in mainline.  If David agrees
> that these are generally worthwhile then perhaps someone could try to
> gather those up?

I very much am not inclined to backport this stuff, it impacts
an extremely small group of people so the risk/benefit ratio is
simply not worth it for me to do the work.

If someone else does the work and tests it, I'm willing to ACK
it going into -stable.

But this change impacted a lot of MDIO drivers and there were
regressions that needed to be fixed up the first time this stuff
went in.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-10-07 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1349441987.6755.45.camel@gandalf.local.home>
2012-10-07 15:33 ` [STABLE][3.0][3.2][Add PATCH] phy/fixed: use an unique MDIO bus name Ben Hutchings
2012-10-07 18:56   ` David Miller [this message]
2012-10-08 12:39     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-10-08 12:52       ` Florian Fainelli

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