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Message-ID: <3eecb73c-7c6c-4813-af0d-244156e358af@hauke-m.de>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:49:18 +0200
From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
To: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>, Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 Andreas Schirm <andreas.schirm@...mens.com>,
 Lukas Stockmann <lukas.stockmann@...mens.com>,
 Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@...mens.com>,
 Peter Christen <peter.christen@...mens.com>,
 Avinash Jayaraman <ajayaraman@...linear.com>, Bing tao Xu
 <bxu@...linear.com>, Liang Xu <lxu@...linear.com>,
 Juraj Povazanec <jpovazanec@...linear.com>,
 "Fanni (Fang-Yi) Chan" <fchan@...linear.com>,
 "Benny (Ying-Tsan) Weng" <yweng@...linear.com>,
 "Livia M. Rosu" <lrosu@...linear.com>, John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/6] net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: move to dedicated
 folder

On 8/28/25 22:33, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2025 at 12:05:28AM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote:
>> Move the lantiq_gswip driver to its own folder and update
>> MAINTAINERS file accordingly.
>> This is done ahead of extending the driver to support the MaxLinear
>> GSW1xx series of standalone switch ICs, which includes adding a bunch
>> of files.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
>> ---
>> v2: move driver to its own folder
>>
>>   MAINTAINERS                                 | 3 +--
>>   drivers/net/dsa/Kconfig                     | 8 +-------
>>   drivers/net/dsa/Makefile                    | 2 +-
>>   drivers/net/dsa/lantiq/Kconfig              | 7 +++++++
>>   drivers/net/dsa/lantiq/Makefile             | 1 +
>>   drivers/net/dsa/{ => lantiq}/lantiq_gswip.c | 0
>>   drivers/net/dsa/{ => lantiq}/lantiq_gswip.h | 0
>>   drivers/net/dsa/{ => lantiq}/lantiq_pce.h   | 0
>>   8 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/lantiq/Kconfig
>>   create mode 100644 drivers/net/dsa/lantiq/Makefile
>>   rename drivers/net/dsa/{ => lantiq}/lantiq_gswip.c (100%)
>>   rename drivers/net/dsa/{ => lantiq}/lantiq_gswip.h (100%)
>>   rename drivers/net/dsa/{ => lantiq}/lantiq_pce.h (100%)
> 
> I don't have a problem with this patch per se, but it will make it
> harder to avoid conflicts for the known and unsubmitted bug fixes, like:
> https://github.com/dangowrt/linux/commit/c7445039b965e1a6aad1a4435e7efd4b7cb30f5b
> https://github.com/dangowrt/linux/commit/48d5cac46fc95a826b5eb49434a3a68b75a8ae1a
> which I haven't found the time to submit (sorry). Are we okay with that?

I think git cherry-pick will still work.

I would like to have these fixes also in the stable kernel, if cherry 
pick does not work you can also send modified version to linux stable.

Hauke