netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] modpost: file2alias: make mdio alias configure match mdio uevent

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Message-ID: <YauFOgy6tjH+kf3J@lunn.ch>
Date:   Sat, 4 Dec 2021 16:11:54 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Yinbo Zhu <zhuyinbo@...ngson.cn>
Cc:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        Michal Marek <michal.lkml@...kovi.net>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] modpost: file2alias: make mdio alias configure
 match mdio uevent

On Sat, Dec 04, 2021 at 05:13:27PM +0800, Yinbo Zhu wrote:
> The do_mdio_entry was responsible for generating a phy alias configure
> that according to the phy driver's mdio_device_id, before apply this
> patch, which alias configure is like "alias mdio:000000010100000100001
> 1011101????", it doesn't match the phy_id of mdio_uevent, because of
> the phy_id was a hexadecimal digit and the mido uevent is consisit of
> phy_id with the char 'p', the uevent string is different from alias.
> Add this patch that mdio alias configure will can match mdio uevent.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yinbo Zhu <zhuyinbo@...ngson.cn>
> ---
> Change in v4:
> 		Add following explain information.

Adding an explanation will not stop the regression happening. You will
continue to get a NACK while your change causes a regression. Please
do not post again until you have addressed the regression.

   Andrew