netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/7] net: qualcomm: rmnet: Fix some existing functionality

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Message-Id: <20171010.201158.638298226550574884.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 10 Oct 2017 20:11:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     subashab@...eaurora.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/7] net: qualcomm: rmnet: Fix some existing
 functionality

From: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@...eaurora.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2017 18:20:22 -0600

> This series fixes some of the broken rmnet functionality from the initial
> patchset. Bridge mode is re-written and made useable and the muxed_ep is
> converted to hlist.
> 
> Patches 1-5 are cleanups in preparation for these changes.
> Patch 6 does the hlist conversion.
> Patch 7 has the implementation of the rmnet bridge mode.
> 
> Note that there will be a compilation error when merging net with net-next
> due to the addition of the ext ack argument in
> netdev_master_upper_dev_link / ndo_add_slave.

I don't thnk any of these changes qualify as "fixes".  They don't
fix any bugs at all.

These are cleanups, and the addition of a new feature used for
debugging.

Therefore these should be all targetted at the 'net-next' tree
not 'net'.