On Thu, 2017-12-07 at 16:34 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 03:27:12PM +0100, Jerome Brunet wrote: > > The purpose of this change is to fix the incorrect detection of the link > > partner (LP) advertised capabilities which sometimes happens with this PHY > > (roughly 1 time in a dozen) > > Hi Jerome > > Since this is a real fix, please send it alone. Base it on net, not > net-next. David will then get it applied to stable, so it will be > backported.
I hesitated on this. For this fix to be "not too ugly" I need at least the helper functions (patch 1 to 3) ... which are not really fixes. Would it be Ok if send patches 1 to 5 to net ? and 6 to 8 separately on net-next ? > > Thanks > Andrew