Re: pull-request: ieee802154 2018-05-08

Hello.


On 05/08/2018 04:18 PM, David Miller wrote:

From: Stefan Schmidt <redacted>
Date: Tue,  8 May 2018 10:29:27 +0200

quoted

An update from ieee802154 for your *net* tree.

Two fixes for the mcr20a driver, which was being added in the 4.17 merge window,
by Gustavo and myself.
The atusb driver got a change to GFP_KERNEL where no GFP_ATOMIC is needed by
Jia-Ju.

The last and most important fix is from Alex to get IPv6 reassembly working
again for the ieee802154 6lowpan adaptation. This got broken in 4.16 so please
queue this one also up for the 4.16 stable tree.

Pulled, thanks.

Thanks.

Please submit the -stable fix directly, you can feel free to CC: me.

Will do when the patch hits Linus git tree.

I have a quick question on the process here. From the netdev-faq document
I was under the impression all stable patches under net/ and drivers/net
should be brought up to you and would be handled by you.

Does this apply to the core part of net (I fully understand that ieee802154
is rather a niche) or is there some other reason for this exception?

Both processes (the normal stable one as well as the slightly different one
for net/) would be fine to go with for me. Just need to know which one I
should use for future stable patches. :-)

regards
Stefan Schmidt