linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: dpaa2-ethsw: cleanup of link state and MAC addresses

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Date:   Wed, 15 Jul 2020 16:10:18 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] staging: dpaa2-ethsw: cleanup of link state and MAC
 addresses

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 04:34:25PM +0300, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> This patch set is cleaning up the link state handling of the switch
> ports in patches 1-4. The last two patches are setting up the MAC
> addresses of the switch ports automatically so that the user is not
> forced to manually add them before adding them to a bridge.

This feels like adding new functionality to this code.  What is keeping
it from getting out of staging at this point in time?  I would prefer
for it to be moved out before adding new stuff to it.

thanks,

greg k-h