Re: [PATCH 4.9] mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking of VLAN devices to devices that have uppers

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:23:47PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 07:52:21PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 08:24:52PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> > > commit 25cc72a33835ed8a6f53180a822cadab855852ac upstream.
> > > 
> > > Jiri Slaby noticed that the backport of upstream commit 25cc72a33835
> > > ("mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking to devices that have uppers") to
> > > kernel 4.9.y introduced the same check twice in the same function
> > > instead of in two different places.
> > > 
> > > Fix this by relocating one of the checks to its intended place, thus
> > > preventing unsupported configurations as described in the original
> > > commit.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: 73ee5a73e75f ("mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking to devices that have uppers")
> > > Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
> > > Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> > > ---
> > > Greg, I read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt, so I hope the patch
> > > is fine. Please let me know if v2 is required. Thanks
> > 
> > This commit is already in 4.9.51, why do you need/want it applied again?
> 
> It wasn't clear to me if I need to specify "commit <sha1> upstream" also
> for fixes of backports. You want me to post v2 without this line?

I have no idea what you are trying to say here, sorry.  This commit is
already in the 4.9.51 kernel release, and yet you are asking for me to
include it again in the 4.9.y tree?  Why?

If not, what exactly are you wanting me to do here?

totally confused,

greg k-h