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From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: Matthieu Baerts <matthieu.baerts@tessares.net>
Cc: stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Patch "selftests: mptcp: depends on built-in IPv6" has been added to the 5.9-stable tree
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:23:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201026142329.GJ4060117@sasha-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1de2bf78-4b47-21b0-9d56-3c8063cdf4bb@tessares.net>

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 09:20:47AM +0100, Matthieu Baerts wrote:
>Hi Sasha,
>
>On 26/10/2020 06:18, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
>>
>>     selftests: mptcp: depends on built-in IPv6
>
>Thank you for backporting this patch.
>
>(...)
>
>>     Fixes: 010b430d5df5 ("mptcp: MPTCP_IPV6 should depend on IPV6 instead of selecting it")
>
>This patch is not really needed because AFAICS this commit here above 
>has not been backported to v5.9. It is only in v5.10-rc1.
>
>(...)
>
>>diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/config b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/config
>>index 8df5cb8f71ff9..741a1c4f4ae8f 100644
>>--- a/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/config
>>+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/net/mptcp/config
>>@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
>>  CONFIG_MPTCP=y
>>+CONFIG_IPV6=y
>>  CONFIG_MPTCP_IPV6=y
>
>But you can also keep this patch, it doesn't hurt: without this commit 
>010b430d5df5 ("mptcp: MPTCP_IPV6 should depend on IPV6 instead of 
>selecting it"), CONFIG_MPTCP_IPV6=y selects CONFIG_IPV6=y. In other 
>words, adding "CONFIG_IPV6=y" here in the selftests config is 
>redundant if you don't have this commit 010b430d5df5 but not wrong.
>
>Note that if you also want to backport this commit 010b430d5df5 
>("mptcp: MPTCP_IPV6 should depend on IPV6 instead of selecting it"), 
>you will need commit 0ed37ac586c0 ("mptcp: depends on IPV6 but not as 
>a module") as well.

I'll drop the selftests fix then, thanks for the heads-up!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha

      reply	other threads:[~2020-10-26 14:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20201026051850.8F51D206A1@mail.kernel.org>
2020-10-26  8:20 ` Patch "selftests: mptcp: depends on built-in IPv6" has been added to the 5.9-stable tree Matthieu Baerts
2020-10-26 14:23   ` Sasha Levin [this message]

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