netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 5/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: detect LPA corruption

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Message-ID: <1512661332.7042.5.camel@baylibre.com>
Date:   Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:42:12 +0100
From:   Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 5/8] net: phy: meson-gxl: detect LPA
 corruption

On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 16:34 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 03:27:12PM +0100, Jerome Brunet wrote:
> > The purpose of this change is to fix the incorrect detection of the link
> > partner (LP) advertised capabilities which sometimes happens with this PHY
> > (roughly 1 time in a dozen)
> 
> Hi Jerome
> 
> Since this is a real fix, please send it alone. Base it on net, not
> net-next.  David will then get it applied to stable, so it will be
> backported.

I hesitated on this. For this fix to be "not too ugly" I need at least the
helper functions (patch 1 to 3) ... which are not really fixes.

Would it be Ok if send patches 1 to 5 to net ?
and 6 to 8 separately on net-next ?

> 
> Thanks
> 	Andrew