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: 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.