netdev - Re: macb: should we revert 0a4e9ce17ba7 ("macb: support the two tx descriptors on at91rm9200") ?

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Date:   Tue, 8 Dec 2020 06:17:35 +0100
From:   Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...rochip.com>,
        Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea@...rochip.com>,
        Daniel Palmer <daniel@...f.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: macb: should we revert 0a4e9ce17ba7 ("macb: support the two tx
 descriptors on at91rm9200") ?

On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 03:40:42PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Thanks for the report, I remember that one. In hindsight maybe we
> should have punted it to 5.11...

Well, not necessarily as it was simple, well documented and *appeared*
to work fine.

> Let's revert ASAP, 5.10 is going to be LTS, people will definitely
> notice.

It could take some time as we're speaking about crazy people running
5.10 on an old 180 MHz MCU :-)

> Would you mind sending a revert patch with the explanation in the
> commit message?

Sure, will do.

Thanks!
Willy