linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH net] net: ipconfig: Release the rtnl

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Date:   Thu, 28 Oct 2021 10:41:06 +0200
From:   Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org>
To:     Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
Cc:     David Ahern <dsahern@...nel.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net] net: ipconfig: Release the rtnl_lock while waiting for carrier

Quoting Maxime Chevallier (2021-10-28 08:45:20)
> On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:05:09 +0200
> Antoine Tenart <atenart@...nel.org> wrote:
> >Quoting Maxime Chevallier (2021-10-27 15:19:53)
> >> 
> >> Fixes: 73970055450e ("sfp: add SFP module support")  
> >
> >Was this working with SFP modules before?
> 
> From what I can tell, no. In that case, does it need a fixes tag ?
> It seems the problem has always been there, and booting an nfsroot
> never worked over SFP links.

In that case I'd say targeting net-next is fine.

Antoine