Re: Patch "ice: fix retry for AQ command 0x06EE" has been added to the 6.1-stable tree

Re: Patch "ice: fix retry for AQ command 0x06EE" has been added to the 6.1-stable tree

[Dawid Osuchowski]

On 2026-03-17 1:11 PM, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>      ice: fix retry for AQ command 0x06EE
> 
> to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
>      http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>       ice-fix-retry-for-aq-command-0x06ee.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.
> 
> 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 6.1-stable and 
5.15-stable trees.

Until I can try to resolve the conflicts and resend, it might be 
necessary to pull this change from the 6.1-stable and 5.15-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.

What is the timeline is for resending a conflict free version of the 
"ice: reintroduce retry mechanism for indirect AQ" patch for 6.1-stable 
and 5.15-stable? And ensuring that the "ice: reintroduce retry mechanism 
for indirect AQ" commit lands in the tree before "ice: fix retry for AQ 
command 0x06EE"?

I don't know how to make that requirement / relation between commits 
known for stable. I didn't find anything in the docs and I assumed if 
the whole series doesn't get applied to a given tree (e.g. 6.1-stable 
and 5.15-stable as is the case here) then the rest also doesn't. If 
there's a way to hint at that for future submissions, please share the 
relevant doc / guideline. Sorry!

Best regards
Dawid