netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/5] NET: PHY names vs MDIO bus names regression fixes

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Date:	Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:00:27 +0100
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] NET: PHY names vs MDIO bus names regression fixes

Le lundi 13 février 2012 22:02:04, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Florian Fainelli <florian@...nwrt.org>
> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:23:19 +0100
> 
> > This patch serie aims at fixing the regressions introduced with the
> > "use an unique MDIO bus name" patchset. Some drivers still formatted
> > the PHY id to use the old bus name (e.g: "0" or "1") and therefore
> > the PHY probing logic gets broken because their underlying MDIO bus
> > name was changed too from "0" to <foo>-<id>.
> > 
> > The offending patches got introduced during 3.3-rc1.
> 
> Then why the heck are you CC:'ing -stable on these patches?

There was no reason, just some bad habit.

> 
> We're still in the 3.3-rcX phase, so there is no other tree in
> the world these patches should be applied to.
> 
> In any event, for networking stuff, you shouldn't be adding
> the stable CC: anyways, I take care of all networking stable
> submissions myself.

Allright, do you want me to resend these without the CC or are they okay as 
is?
-- 
Florian
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