Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: fix race condition and log macro in ethernet-rgmii.c

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Nov 07, 2026 at 09:52:10AM -0600, Oscar Alejandro Sánchez Lucero via B4 Relay wrote:
> From: Oscar Alejandro Sánchez Lucero <aleszlucero@gmail.com>
> 
> Fix a race condition in cvm_oct_check_preamble_errors() by moving the
> read assignment of priv->link_info inside the global_register_lock
> protected critical section. This prevents unsynchronized read-accesses
> concurring with status mutations from concurrent polling contexts.
> 
> Additionally, modernize the message output by replacing the obsolete
> printk_ratelimited() call with netdev_notice_ratelimited().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Alejandro Sánchez Lucero <aleszlucero@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-rgmii.c | 12 +++++-------
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

How did you find and test all of these patches?

And why did you send 17 of them all at once, not in a series at all?
How are we to know what order to apply them in?

I've dropped them all now, please fix and resend properly.

thanks,

greg k-h