netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tg3: Update link

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Message-Id: <20130307.222942.936900451773665530.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:29:42 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nsujir@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp,
	mchan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tg3: Update link_up flag for phylib devices

From: "Nithin Nayak Sujir" <nsujir@...adcom.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 18:45:27 -0800

> Commit f4a46d1f46a8fece34edd2023e054072b02e110d introduced a bug where
> the ifconfig stats would remain 0 for phylib devices. This is due to
> tp->link_up flag never becoming true causing tg3_periodic_fetch_stats()
> to return.

This is a non-trivial regression, therefore shouldn't this change
be targetted at 'net' instead of 'net-next'?
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