[PATCH net v2 2/7] net: dsa: mt7530: fix trapping frames with multiple CPU ports on MT7530

Arınç ÜNAL arinc.unal at arinc9.com
Wed Jun 14 00:03:04 PDT 2023


On 14.06.2023 00:14, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 12:04:10AM +0300, Arınç ÜNAL wrote:
>> Because I don't see the latter patch as a fix. It treats the symptom, not
>> the cause.
>>
>> Anyway, I'm fine with taking this patch from this series and put it on my
>> series for net-next instead.
> 
> Right, but what seems to have been the case during the net.git
> (and linux-stable.git) triage so far is that user impact matters.
> A configuration that works by coincidence and not by intention, but
> otherwise works reliably, still works, at the end of the day.
> 
> If you read the weekly net.git pull requests sent to Linus Torvalds,
> you'll see that maintainers try to make a summary of what had to be
> changed and why. There isn't really a strong reason why this patch *has*
> to be in those pull requests. That's kind of the mindset of what makes
> "stable" "stable".

Makes sense. I have prepared v5 that addresses everything so far, should 
I send it today now that Russell has reviewed v4?

Arınç



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