From: <Parthiban.Veerasooran@microchip.com>
To: <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<edumazet@google.com>, <kuba@kernel.org>, <pabeni@redhat.com>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] microchip: lan865x: fix missing ndo_eth_ioctl handler to support PHY ioctl
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:45:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6137118a-bcb6-4c4d-98bd-10e065145a60@microchip.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5ac05a1f-0cd2-421c-8747-9159a62dce2b@lunn.ch>
On 22/08/25 6:29 pm, Andrew Lunn wrote:
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>> By the way, is there a possibility to submit or apply this patch to the
>> older stable kernels as well, so that users on those versions can also
>> benefit from this feature?
>
> This is the sort of patch the machine learning bot picks up for back
> porting to stable. The Fixes: tag is only one indicator it looks for,
> it being a one liner and the words in the commit message might trigger
> it as well.
Thank you for the explanation. As per your suggestion, I’ve moved this
feature patch to net-next, so I assume there’s no possibility of getting
it into the older stable kernels, as it is not a fix—is that correct?
Best regards,
Parthiban V
>
> Andrew
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-22 13:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-21 8:28 Parthiban Veerasooran
2025-08-22 0:17 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-08-22 4:24 ` Parthiban.Veerasooran
2025-08-22 12:59 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-08-22 13:45 ` Parthiban.Veerasooran [this message]
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