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

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Message-ID: <20260105155215.6e6e1456@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 15:52:15 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jonas Jelonek <jelonek.jonas@...il.com>
Cc: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>, Andrew Lunn
 <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, "David S .
 Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 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

On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 17:13:45 +0000 Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > > 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'.  
> 
> Hmm, didn't know about that... but in this context, I wonder how
> useful it is. As a maintainer, given that patches submitted don't
> specify their patch-id, tracking down which patch is the
> pre-requisit would be a mammoth task [...]

+1, please wait for any pre-requisites to be in the tree before posting.
If you'd like to get early reviews send as RFC. Note that net gets
merged into net-next every Thu (in case the dependency is cross-tree
this is an extra wait).