linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: usb: cdc_ncm: don't spew notifications

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:05:46 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Grant Grundler <grundler@...omium.org>
Cc:     Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: usb: cdc_ncm: don't spew notifications

On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 00:59:17 +0000 Grant Grundler wrote:
> > > Thanks for the patch, this looks like an improvement over:
> > >
> > > 59b4a8fa27f5 ("CDC-NCM: remove "connected" log message")
> > >
> > > right? Should we bring the "network connection: connected" message back?  
> >
> > Yes, we can revert Roland's patch. I didn't see that one.
> >  
> > > Do you want all of these patches to be applied to 5.11 and backported?  
> >
> > Yes to 5.11. Only the 3rd one really needs to be applied to stable kernels.  
> 
> Sorry - I was thinking 5.11 was -next (and that's incorrect).
> 
> As you suggested below, only the 3rd one really needs to be applied to
> 5.11 and other stable kernels.

Cool, would you mind reposting just the 3rd patch separately, and
tagged as [PATCH net] so that CI can give it a shaking? We'll go 
from there with the rest.

> >  
> > > Feels to me like the last one is a fix and the rest can go into -next,
> > > WDYT?  
> >
> > Exactly.