Re: Patch "ice: fix retry for AQ command 0x06EE" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2026 at 04:24:15PM +0100, Dawid Osuchowski wrote:
> On 2026-03-17 4:14 PM, Dawid Osuchowski wrote:
> > On 2026-03-17 1:11 PM, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > > please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> > > 
> > 
> > Hey stable maintainers!
> > 
> > This patch **depends heavily** on the change "ice: reintroduce retry
> > mechanism for indirect AQ" which failed to apply for 5.15-stable and
> > 6.1-stable trees.
> > 
> > Until I can try to resolve the conflicts and resend, it might be
> > necessary to pull this change from the 5.15-stable and 6.1-stable trees
> > immediately as it will result in multiple WARN messages being printed
> > into the dmesg upon issuing 'ethtool -m' on a interface under the 'ice'
> > driver control.
> 
> !!! FALSE ALARM - ABORT !!!
> 
> I'm sorry, a bit of a chaotic day here at work...
> 
> I was worried the lack of the "ice: reintroduce retry mechanism for indirect
> AQ" patch will result in issues for users. It will not, as my colleague
> Jakub Staniszewski politely informed me that the 5.15-stable and 6.1-stable
> doesn't have the code from Michal Schmidt that we "reverted" using "ice:
> reintroduce retry mechanism for indirect AQ". No warnings will be printed to
> dmesg and everything should work correctly...
> 
> Once again I am very sorry

No worries, I'd much rather people warn us and then say "nope, we were
wrong" instead of not saying anything if they think there might be a
problem.  So all is good here, thanks!

greg k-h