From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/5] mlx4 misc fixes and improvements Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 22:00:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20160918.220046.1374771296032853447.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1473686416-11779-1-git-send-email-tariqt@mellanox.com> <20160915.192106.739428651744920778.davem@davemloft.net> <80a8e8c5-689e-a2b1-e2d4-817dc0649385@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: tariqt@mellanox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, eranbe@mellanox.com To: ttoukan.linux@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:51496 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936368AbcISCAx (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2016 22:00:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <80a8e8c5-689e-a2b1-e2d4-817dc0649385@gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Tariq Toukan Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:27:23 +0300 > Hi Dave, > > On 16/09/2016 2:21 AM, David Miller wrote: >> From: Tariq Toukan >> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:20:11 +0300 >> >>> This patchset contains some bug fixes, a cleanup, and small >>> improvements >>> from the team to the mlx4 Eth and core drivers. >>> >>> Series generated against net-next commit: >>> 02154927c115 "net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Get VLAN_PORT_MASK from b53_device" >>> >>> Please push the following patch to -stable >= 4.6 as well: >>> "net/mlx4_core: Fix to clean devlink resources" >> Again, coding style fixes and optimizations like branch prediction >> hints are not bug fixes and therefore not appropriate for 'net'. > Yes, I know. Please notice that it was submitted to net-next this > time. This is completely incompatible with a request for one of the changes to go into -stable. If the change is not in 'net', it can't go to -stable.