Thread (19 messages) 19 messages, 4 authors, 2016-07-01

Re: [PATCH net 00/13] Mellanox 100G mlx5 resiliency and xmit path fixes

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2016-07-01 10:23:13

From: Saeed Mahameed <redacted>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:34:37 +0300
This series provides two set of fixes to the mlx5 driver:
	- Resiliency fixes for reset flow and internal pci errors
	- xmit path fixes
Series applied to 'net' but expecting all of this to be backported
to -stable is unreasonable.

PCI error paths, chip resets, timeout handling, etc. and some
non-trivial changes.  This is not appropriate for -stable at all.

What's relevant for -stable is operational bug fixes for issues
users will hit in regular operation.

And yes this is partially my own interpreation of what is appropriate
for -stable.

But if I were to set the precendence of adding all of these to -stable
it means people will then be able to request similar things in other
drivers.  We want to avoid having too much grey area stuff backported
to -stable, there are too many changes going through -stable already.
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