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Message-ID: <20230609231843.6e5a18db@kernel.org>
Date:   Fri, 9 Jun 2023 23:18:43 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Justin Chen <justin.chen@...adcom.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com,
        florian.fainelli@...adcom.com,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Daniil Tatianin <d-tatianin@...dex-team.ru>,
        Ido Schimmel <idosch@...dia.com>,
        Marco Bonelli <marco@...eim.net>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@...g-engineering.com>,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>,
        Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@...adoo.fr>,
        Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] ethtool: ioctl: improve error checking for
 set_wol

On Fri, 9 Jun 2023 13:47:22 -0700 Justin Chen wrote:
> Was thinking more about this patch. I realized we don't account for the 
> different sopass case.
> # ethtool -s eth0 wol s sopass 11:22:33:44:55:66
> # ethtool -s eth0 wol s sopass 22:44:55:66:77:88
> 
> For this case, the second sopass values won't be stored.
>
> Can you drop this patch? I will submit another version.

We can't drop patches, it'd mess up commit IDs and basing
trees on top of net-next would be a major PITA for people.
Please send a fix on top (with a Fixes tag making it clear
that the problem has not reached any -rc kernel).