Re: [PATCH for-rc] RDMA/bnxt_re: Honor vlan_id in GID entry comparison

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
Cc: Selvin Xavier <selvin.xavier@broadcom.com>,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, dledford@redhat.com, jgg@ziepe.ca,
	linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
	Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH for-rc] RDMA/bnxt_re: Honor vlan_id in GID entry comparison
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2019 16:16:44 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190716071644.GA21780@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190716071030.GH10130@mtr-leonro.mtl.com>

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 10:10:30AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 05:19:13AM -0400, Selvin Xavier wrote:
> > GID entry consist of GID, vlan, netdev and smac.
> > Extend GID duplicate check companions to consider vlan_id as well
> > to support IPv6 VLAN based link local addresses. Introduce
> > a new structure (bnxt_qplib_gid_info) to hold gid and vlan_id information.
> >
> > The issue is discussed in the following thread
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg81594.html
> >
> > Fixes: 823b23da7113 ("IB/core: Allow vlan link local address based RoCE GIDs")
> > Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.2+
> > Reported-by: Yi Zhang <yi.zhang@redhat.com>
> 
> > Co-developed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
> 
> I never understood why bad habits are so stinky.
> 
> Can you please explain us what does it mean Co-developed-by and
> Signed-off-by of the same person in the same patch?

See Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for what that tag
means.

thanks,

greg k-h