linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 5/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: detect LPA corruption

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Message-ID: <20171207153403.GE24750@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 16:34:03 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 5/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: detect LPA
 corruption

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 03:27:12PM +0100, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> The purpose of this change is to fix the incorrect detection of the link
> partner (LP) advertised capabilities which sometimes happens with this PHY
> (roughly 1 time in a dozen)

Hi Jerome

Since this is a real fix, please send it alone. Base it on net, not
net-next.  David will then get it applied to stable, so it will be
backported.

Thanks
	Andrew