[PATCH net-next 11/15] net: qca8k: update PCS driver to use neg_mode

Vladimir Oltean olteanv at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 04:28:58 PDT 2023


On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:18:13AM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 01:07:14PM +0100, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > Update qca8k's embedded PCS driver to use neg_mode rather than the
> > mode argument. As there is no pcs_link_up() method, this only affects
> > the pcs_config() method.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>
> 
> I see netdevbpf patchwork is complaining that I didn't Cc a maintainer
> for this patch (ansuelsmth at gmail.com). Why is it complaining? This
> address is *not* in the MAINTAINERS file in the net-next tree neither
> for the version I generated the patch against (tip on submission date),
> today's tip, nor the net tree.
> 
> Is patchwork using an outdated MAINTAINERS file?
> 
> -- 
> RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/
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I can presume that patchwork runs scripts/get_maintainer.pl, which looks
not only at the MAINTAINERS file, but also at the recent authors and
sign offs from git for a certain file path.



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