From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Bjørn Mork" <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8152; preserve device list format
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:12:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y7/dBXrI2QkiBFlW@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230112100100.180708-1-bjorn@mork.no>
On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 11:01:00AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> This is a partial revert of commit ec51fbd1b8a2 ("r8152:
> add USB device driver for config selection")
>
> Keep a simplified version of the REALTEK_USB_DEVICE macro
> to avoid unnecessary reformatting of the device list. This
> makes new device ID additions apply cleanly across driver
> versions.
>
> Fixes: ec51fbd1b8a2 ("r8152: add USB device driver for config selection")
> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
> ---
> The patch in
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230111133228.190801-1-andre.przywara@arm.com/
> will apply cleanly on top of this.
>
> This fix will also prevent a lot of stable backporting hassle.
No need for this, just backport the original change to older kernels and
all will be fine.
Don't live with stuff you don't want to because of stable kernels,
that's not how this whole process works at all :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-01-12 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-11 13:32 [PATCH net-next] r8152: add vendor/device ID pair for Microsoft Devkit Andre Przywara
2023-01-12 5:31 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-12 8:33 ` Bjørn Mork
2023-01-12 10:00 ` Greg KH
2023-01-12 10:01 ` [PATCH net-next] r8152; preserve device list format Bjørn Mork
2023-01-12 10:12 ` Greg KH [this message]
2023-01-12 10:18 ` Bjørn Mork
2023-01-12 10:21 ` Greg KH
2023-01-12 10:29 ` Bjørn Mork
2023-01-12 10:36 ` Greg KH
2023-01-13 10:16 ` Bjørn Mork
2023-01-13 19:54 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-01-12 10:51 ` [PATCH net-next] r8152: add vendor/device ID pair for Microsoft Devkit Andre Przywara
2023-01-12 11:39 ` Paolo Abeni
2023-01-12 11:56 ` Andre Przywara
2023-01-12 13:08 ` Paolo Abeni
2023-01-12 13:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
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