From: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 14:40:50 +0200
> This patch, commit b555cf4a50c17a9714715a2d7c8574dca1a7b356 ("mlxsw: spectrum:
> Reduce number of supported 802.1D bridges") reduced the resources the
> device allocates during init. Newer firmware versions now force a hard
> limit on these resources and thus require this patch.
>
> We would like to ask this commit be backported to stable kernels, so
> that they can be used with newer firmware versions.
Breaking existing working drivers with a firmware update is a terrible
user experience, and in my opinion not a reason to do a -stable
backport. Fix how you manage this stuff instead.
This new behavior should be requested by drivers that can handle it,
rather than retroactively forced upon existing setups.
