netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/5] rxrpc: Miscellaneous fixes

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Message-ID: <20240508065436.2f0c07e9@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2024 06:54:36 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@...istor.com>, David Howells
 <dhowells@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Marc Dionne <marc.dionne@...istor.com>, "David
 S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo
 Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/5] rxrpc: Miscellaneous fixes

On Wed, 8 May 2024 01:57:43 -0600 Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> > Looks like these got marked as Rejected in patchwork.
> > I think either because lore is confused and attaches an exchange with
> > DaveM from 2022 to them (?) or because I mentioned to DaveM that I'm
> > not sure these are fixes. So let me ask - on a scale of 1 to 10, how
> > convinced are you that these should go to Linus this week rather than
> > being categorized as general improvements and go during the merge
> > window (without the Fixes tags)?  
> 
> Jakub,
> 
> In my opinion, the first two patches in the series I believe are important to back port to the stable branches.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@...istor.com <mailto:jaltman@...istor.com>>

Are they regressions? Seems possible from the Fixes tag but unclear
from the text of the commit messages.

In any case, taking the first two may be a reasonable compromise.
Does it sounds good to you, David?