linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.7 021/108] r8169: improve RTL8411b phy-down fixup

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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2024 17:43:15 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org, Heiner Kallweit
 <hkallweit1@...il.com>, Mirsad Todorovac <mirsad.todorovac@....unizg.hr>,
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 nic_swsd@...ltek.com, edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 6.7 021/108] r8169: improve RTL8411b phy-down
 fixup

On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 14:38:47 -0500 Sasha Levin wrote:
> Mirsad proposed a patch to reduce the number of spinlock lock/unlock
> operations and the function code size. This can be further improved
> because the function sets a consecutive register block.

Clearly a noop and a lot of LoC changed. I vote to drop this from 
the backport.