From: Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.li...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:27:23 +0300
> Hi Dave, > > On 16/09/2016 2:21 AM, David Miller wrote: >> From: Tariq Toukan <tar...@mellanox.com> >> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:20:11 +0300 >> >>> This patchset contains some bug fixes, a cleanup, and small >>> improvements >>> from the team to the mlx4 Eth and core drivers. >>> >>> Series generated against net-next commit: >>> 02154927c115 "net: dsa: bcm_sf2: Get VLAN_PORT_MASK from b53_device" >>> >>> Please push the following patch to -stable >= 4.6 as well: >>> "net/mlx4_core: Fix to clean devlink resources" >> Again, coding style fixes and optimizations like branch prediction >> hints are not bug fixes and therefore not appropriate for 'net'. > Yes, I know. Please notice that it was submitted to net-next this > time. This is completely incompatible with a request for one of the changes to go into -stable. If the change is not in 'net', it can't go to -stable.