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Message-ID: <20200509151026.30abcb6f@windsurf.home>
Date:   Sat, 9 May 2020 15:10:26 +0200
From:   Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>
To:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Stefan Chulski <stefanc@...vell.com>,
        Matteo Croce <mcroce@...hat.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@...tlin.com>,
        "gregory.clement@...tlin.com" <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
        "miquel.raynal@...tlin.com" <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Nadav Haklai <nadavh@...vell.com>,
        Marcin Wojtas <mw@...ihalf.com>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next 3/5] net: mvpp2: cls: Use RSS
 contexts to handle RSS tables

On Sat, 9 May 2020 13:48:43 +0100
Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk> wrote:

> > Unfortunately, we are no longer actively working on Marvell platform
> > support at the moment. We might have a look on a best effort basis, but
> > this is potentially a non-trivial issue, so I'm not sure when we will
> > have the chance to investigate and fix this.  
> 
> That may be the case, but that doesn't excuse the fact that we have a
> regression and we need to do something.

Absolutely.

> Please can you suggest how we resolve this regression prior to
> 5.7-final?

Since 5.7 is really close, I would suggest to disable the functionality.

Best regards,

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com