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Message-ID: <20230124083907.w7h6rbvh7fsq334y@lion.mk-sys.cz>
Date:   Tue, 24 Jan 2023 09:39:07 +0100
From:   Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Markus Mayer <mmayer@...adcom.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool v2 0/3] Build fixes for older kernel headers and
 musl

On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 02:01:16PM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi Michal,
> 
> On 1/14/23 08:34, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > Hi Michal,
> > 
> > These 3 patches fix build issues encountered in the 6.1 release with
> > either older kernel headers (pre v4.11) or with musl-libc.
> > 
> > In case you want to add a prebuilt toolchain with your release procedure
> > you can use those binaries:
> > 
> > https://github.com/Broadcom/stbgcc-8.3/releases/tag/stbgcc-8.3-0.4
> > 
> > Changes in v2:
> > 
> > - reworked the first commit to bring in if.h, this is a more invasive
> >    change but it allows us to drop the ALTIFNAMSIZ override and it might
> >    be easier to maintain moving forward
> > 
> > - reworked the third commit to avoid using non standard integer types
> 
> Any feedback on whether you prefer this version versus the v1?

I like v2 more and unless I run into some trouble with it, I'm going to
merge it this week with the rest of the backlog.

Michal

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