From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.19] net/mlx5e: Don't support phys switch id if not in switchdev mode
Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2020 15:13:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200807131323.GA664450@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200807020542.636290-1-saeedm@mellanox.com>
On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 07:05:42PM -0700, Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> From: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
>
> Support for phys switch id ndo added for representors and if
> we do not have representors there is no need to support it.
> Since each port return different switch id supporting this
> block support for creating bond over PFs and attaching to bridge
> in legacy mode.
>
> This bug doesn't exist upstream as the code got refactored and the
> netdev api is totally different.
>
> Fixes: cb67b832921c ("net/mlx5e: Introduce SRIOV VF representors")
> Signed-off-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
> ---
> Hi Greg,
>
> Sorry for submitting a non upstream patch, but this bug is
> bothering some users on 4.19-stable kernels and it doesn't exist
> upstream, so i hope you are ok with backporting this one liner patch.
Also queued up to 4.9.y and 4.14.y.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-07 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-07 2:05 [PATCH 4.19] net/mlx5e: Don't support phys switch id if not in switchdev mode Saeed Mahameed
2020-08-07 13:13 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-09-10 18:46 ` Saeed Mahameed
2020-09-11 11:57 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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