netdev - Re: ethtool: git tree not updated to v3.18

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Message-ID: <551D10E1.2080304@iogearbox.net>
Date:	Thu, 02 Apr 2015 11:50:25 +0200
From:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bwh@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: ethtool: git tree not updated to v3.18

On 04/01/2015 11:30 PM, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> When trying to check a bug just now I noticed that the master
> branch of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/ethtool/ethtool
>
> still points to the v3.16 tag.
>
> But kernel.org shows version 3.18 released.  I did some quick
> investigation and it looks like the v3.18 tag points to a dangling
> commit that is not on a branch.
>
> $ git log --graph --oneline v3.18 |head -n5
> * ba9a11a Release version 3.18.
> * 1e8811a Fix build with musl by using more common typedefs
> * 99bc878 bug fix: SFP Tx BIAS uses memory wrong offset
> * 4614098 Release version 3.16.
> * 14ef76c test-cmdline: Disable test cases for --rxfh hash key parsing
>
> $ git log --graph --oneline origin/master |head -n5
> * 4614098 Release version 3.16.
> * 14ef76c test-cmdline: Disable test cases for --rxfh hash key parsing
> * 86c0326 ethtool: Support for configurable RSS hash key
> * e633626 ethtool-copy.h: sync with net
> * 05b8ad5 Release version 3.14.
>
> Maybe you can merge the commits from your working branch back onto
> master and make another 3.18.1 tag or something.
>
> I just did:
> git checkout master
> git merge v3.18
>
> which worked okay, I think.

Btw, are there any plans to keep track of ethtool patches in
netdev patchwork as well, like we do with iproute2?

I recall in early January this year there was a patch to add
qsfp diag information support to ethtool, but that probably
got lost on the list, not sure.

Cheers,
Daniel
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