netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net] net: usb: ax88179_178a have issues with FLAG_SEND

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Date:   Sat, 6 Aug 2022 17:23:04 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Jose Alonso <joalonsof@...il.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@...itan.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] net: usb: ax88179_178a have issues with
 FLAG_SEND_ZLP

On Fri, Aug 05, 2022 at 05:27:33PM -0300, Jose Alonso wrote:
> To: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>, Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@...itan.com>
> 
>     [PATCH net] net: usb: ax88179_178a have issues with FLAG_SEND_ZLP
>     The usage of FLAG_SEND_ZLP causes problems to other firmware/hardware
>     versions that have no issues.
>     
>     The FLAG_SEND_ZLP is not safe to use in this context.
>     See:
>     https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/patch/1270599787.8900.8.camel@Linuxdev4-laptop/#118378
>     
>     Reported-by: Ronald Wahl <ronald.wahl@...itan.com>
>     Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216327
>     Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/75491
>     
>     Fixes: 36a15e1cb134 ("net: usb: ax88179_178a needs FLAG_SEND_ZLP")
>     Signed-off-by: Jose Alonso <joalonsof@...il.com>
>     
>     --

Please take a read of:

https://kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html

It should explain all the things you are getting wrong.

It is also worth looking at a few patches on the mailing list which do
get accepted. Look at there format and copy them.

   Andrew