Re: mlx5e backports for v4.9 -stable

On 03/17/2017 02:06 AM, David Miller wrote:

Commits:

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From b0d4660b4cc52e6477ca3a43435351d565dfcedc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tariq Toukan <redacted>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:20:14 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5e: Fix broken CQE compression initialization
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and

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From 6dc4b54e77282caf17f0ff72aa32dd296037fbc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Saeed Mahameed <redacted>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 17:20:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5e: Update MPWQE stride size when modifying CQE
 compress state
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do not apply even closely to v4.9 while I was working on -stable backports.

Please provide proper backports of these two patches if you want them to
show up in v4.9 -stable.

Hi Dave,

thank you for trying, we will provide the patches, but I don't know what is the right procedure
to do so.

is it ok to post the patches applied on top tag v4.9.16  of kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git ?
to whom should I send them ? 

thanks,
Saeed.