linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] net: sfp: add SMBus I2C block support

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Message-ID: <3c774e4d-b7a6-44e3-99f3-876f5ccb1ca3@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 17:53:42 +0100
From: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@...il.com>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
 "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
 Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>,
 Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: sfp: add SMBus I2C block support

Hi Russell,

On 05.01.26 17:28, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2026 at 04:12:42PM +0000, Jonas Jelonek wrote:
>> base-commit: c303e8b86d9dbd6868f5216272973292f7f3b7f1
>> prerequisite-patch-id: ae039dad1e17867fce9182b6b36ac3b1926b254a
> This seems to be almost useless information. While base-commit exists
> in the net-next tree, commit ae039dad1e17867fce9182b6b36ac3b1926b254a
> doesn't exist in either net-next nor net trees.
>
> My guess is you applied Maxime's patch locally, and that is the
> commit ID of that patch.

This was supposed to be the stable patch-id obtained with 
'git patch-id --stable'.

> Given that Maxime's patch is targetting the net tree (because it's
> a fix), and your patch is new development, so is for net-next, you
> either need to:
> - wait until Maxime's patch has been merged, and then the net tree
>   has been merged into net-next.
> or:
> - resend without Maxime's patch.
>
> In either case, please read https://docs.kernel.org/process/maintainer-netdev.html
> In particular, the salient points are:
> - no resends in under 24 hours (see point 1.6.7)
> - specify the tree that your patch is targetting in the subject line
>   (see point 1.6.1) E.g. [PATCH net-next v...] net: blah blah
>
> Thanks.
>

Ack. I'll fix the points you mentioned.
Thanks for your patience.

Best,
Jonas