netdev - Re: [PATCH] Revert "be2net: remove desc field from be_eq

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Date:   Tue, 23 Oct 2018 20:42:21 +0200
From:   Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sathya.perla@...adcom.com,
        ajit.khaparde@...adcom.com, sriharsha.basavapatna@...adcom.com,
        somnath.kotur@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "be2net: remove desc field from be_eq_obj"

On 23.10.2018 20:03, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
> Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2018 16:40:26 +0200
> 
>> The mentioned commit needs to be reverted because we cannot pass
>> string allocated on stack to request_irq(). This function stores
>> uses this pointer for later use (e.g. /proc/interrupts) so we need
>> to keep this string persistently.
>>
>> Fixes: d6d9704af8f4 ("be2net: remove desc field from be_eq_obj")
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
> 
> Please do not put empty lines between Fixes and the other tags,
> all tags should appear together as one contiguous group.
Sure Dave... sorry for that.

Ivan