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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 18:15:34 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Networking
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 01:47:34PM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:00:12AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > On 09/15/2017, 06:57 AM, David Miller wrote:
> > > Please queue up the following networking bug fixes for v4.9, v4.12, and
> > > v4.13 -stable, respectively.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > while walking through some fixes, I wonder, whether backports of
> > 25cc72a33835 (mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid linking to devices that have
> >  uppers) to 4.9 and 4.12 are correct.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > 
> > 
> > Did I miss something or is this a mistake?
> 
> Your analysis looks correct to me. How do you want to proceed? Do you
> want me to send you fixed backports for 4.9.y and 4.12.y?

Yes, can you send a fix for this?  4.12.y is end-of-life, so it doesn't
matter, but 4.9.y does.

thanks,

greg k-h