Re:Re: [PATCH] net: macb: rate limit netdev error info print in the data path

[taozj888 <taozj888@163.com>]

Hi Theo:


With all your information provided, I sent the patch in [PATCH net v2] again, hope it would satisfy the requirement. 
If not, I would also change it as required.


Thank you,


Zijin Tao



At 2026-09-29 15:45:47, "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com> wrote:
>Hello Zijin,
>
>Please use interleaved posting for replies, not top posting.
>
>https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#use-trimmed-interleaved-replies-in-email-discussions
>
>On Tue Sep 29, 2026 at 5:56 AM CEST, Zijin wrote:
>> Thank you very much for your kindly reply.
>>
>> For all your concerns in this mail thread and [0][1], I try to give
>> my answers here and hope it does not miss anything:
>>
>> 1. Yes, I missed the prefix [PATCH net], I will add it in my next
>> commit; I would like to send it again as the 1st version
>> since I missed this needed part [PATCH net];
>
>If patch stays the same it is OK, if it changes (for example because you
>add trailers) then you must iterate onto v2.
>
>> 2. For the To/Cc list, I will use `git send-email --cc-cmd=scripts/get_maintainer.pl` as you indicated;
>>
>> 3. This whole patch is  NOT LLM generated, it's really a bug hit in practice, the "PHYT0036:00" 
>> device name is the real name that showed in our console output, I can't just imagine or made this name and it's really of out of my imagination.
>>  I think it may be related to a vendor with some of the PCI addr but I think it may not be polite to say it directly. 
>> Actually hallucinating a kernel log even a kernel patch is out of my knowledge, if you know to how and 
>> wish to tell me, I think it should be really interesting!
>
>No I don't encourage you to hallucinate! It's what LLMs do sometimes
>when you ask one to generate a commit message for a bug fix. They have
>seen tons of commits with logs so they reproduce.
>
>[...]
>
>> 5. For the severity tag and should this carry a Fixes tag and name the
>> intended tree,  please give out a clear indication from your
>> experiences for what I described above. I really have not too much
>> knowledge about that.
>
>Yes. You put those two trailers:
>
>   Fixes: 89e5785fc8a6 ("[PATCH] Atmel MACB ethernet driver")
>   Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>
>See documentation link below (or kernel git log for many examples).
>
>In your case you want the oldest commit that introduced one of those
>logs. The macb_start_xmit() one for example got introduced with the
>first driver commit, so that's what you target.
>
>https://docs.kernel.org/process/submitting-patches.html#describe-your-changes
>
>Thanks,
>
>--
>Théo Lebrun, Bootlin
>Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
>https://bootlin.com