From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller 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) Message-ID: <20121007.145622.83624305358947187.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1349441987.6755.45.camel@gandalf.local.home> <1349624019.16173.113.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, florian@openwrt.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: ben@decadent.org.uk Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:44983 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754061Ab2JGS4Y (ORCPT ); Sun, 7 Oct 2012 14:56:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1349624019.16173.113.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings 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.