linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "be2net: remove desc field from be_eq

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Date:   Tue, 23 Oct 2018 11:03:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ivecera@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sathya.perla@...adcom.com,
        ajit.khaparde@...adcom.com, sriharsha.basavapatna@...adcom.com,
        somnath.kotur@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "be2net: remove desc field from be_eq_obj"

From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:40:26 +0200

> The mentioned commit needs to be reverted because we cannot pass
> string allocated on stack to request_irq(). This function stores
> uses this pointer for later use (e.g. /proc/interrupts) so we need
> to keep this string persistently.
> 
> Fixes: d6d9704af8f4 ("be2net: remove desc field from be_eq_obj")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>

Please do not put empty lines between Fixes and the other tags,
all tags should appear together as one contiguous group.

Fixed and applied and queued up for -stable.