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Message-ID: <1464283499.5939.100.camel@edumazet-glaptop3.roam.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 May 2016 10:24:59 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/4] net/mlx4_en: fix stats

On Thu, 2016-05-26 at 18:19 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2016-05-26 at 12:44 +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> >> Hi Eric,
> >>
> >> > mlx4 has various bugs in its ndo_get_stats() and related functions.
> >> > This patch series address the obvious issues.
> >> > Remaining ones will be discussed later.
> >> >
> >> Thanks for the fixes.
> >> I see they were already applied.
> >> I reviewed them all and replied to patch 4/4, the rest look good to me.
> >> Please CC me as the maintainer of mlx4_en on future patches.
> >
> > If you are mlx4_en maintainer, please submit an official patch so that
> > non Mellanox employees can get this information using the normal way ?
> 
> Eric, sure, we were on a transition period and Tariq was not fully
> familiar with that practice,
> I'd like to make sure the move is finalized internally and then we'll
> send the patch..

Sure ! Please note I gave a polite answer, I am sorry if you felt any
hidden intent from my side.

I did CC the official mlx4_en maintainer on this patch series, by simply
looking at MAINTAINERS file.