netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] Resolve races in phy accessors

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Date:   Wed, 03 Jan 2018 13:38:37 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     linux@...linux.org.uk
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/7] Resolve races in phy accessors

From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 17:32:55 +0000

> On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 11:04:31AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>
>> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 10:52:18 +0000
>> 
>> > This series resolves races with various accesses to PHY registers.
>> > The first five patches are necessary before we add phylink support
>> > to mvneta, the remaining three are merely cleanups for unobserved
>> > races, and hence are less critical.
>> 
>> Series applied.
> 
> aieee, this should have been applied before the mvneta patch set (as
> mentioned in the covering email to that set, as well as the cover
> message you quoted above) because the mvneta patch set makes these
> races visible.  Well, I guess folk are going to have to put up with
> bisect issues if they hit a commit between the two merges in your tree.
> 
> Well, I guess what's done is done, I did my best to avoid it being
> visible.

Sorry for not catching this, my bad.