linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.8 55/62] RDMA/efa: Add EFA 0xefa1 PCI ID

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Message-ID: <20200821195322.GC8670@sasha-vm>
Date:   Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:53:22 -0400
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Gal Pressman <galpress@...zon.com>,
        Shadi Ammouri <sammouri@...zon.com>,
        Yossi Leybovich <sleybo@...zon.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.8 55/62] RDMA/efa: Add EFA 0xefa1 PCI ID

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 04:40:36PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 12:14:16PM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Gal Pressman <galpress@...zon.com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit d4f9cb5c5b224dca3ff752c1bb854250bf114944 ]
>>
>> Add support for 0xefa1 devices.
>>
>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200722140312.3651-5-galpress@amazon.com
>> Reviewed-by: Shadi Ammouri <sammouri@...zon.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Yossi Leybovich <sleybo@...zon.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galpress@...zon.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>> ---
>>  drivers/infiniband/hw/efa/efa_main.c | 6 ++++--
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>Wait, what? Why is this being autosel'd?

Stable trees try to pick up device enablement patches (such as patches
that add PCI IDs). I suppose that AUTOSEL get pretty eager to grab
those.

>This needs to be the last patch in a series enabling support for this
>chip, it will badly break this driver to pick it out of sequence!!

I'll drop it, thanks for letting me know!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha