Re: [STABLE][3.0][3.2][Add PATCH] phy/fixed: use an unique MDIObus name

From: David Miller
Date: Sun Oct 07 2012 - 14:56:35 EST


From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2012 16:33:39 +0100

> Networking stable fixes are normally vetted, backported and bundled up
> by David, so I'll let him decide on this.
>
> There are a lot more MDIO bus drivers that don't play nicely with
> others, most of which seem to be fixed in mainline. If David agrees
> that these are generally worthwhile then perhaps someone could try to
> gather those up?

I very much am not inclined to backport this stuff, it impacts
an extremely small group of people so the risk/benefit ratio is
simply not worth it for me to do the work.

If someone else does the work and tests it, I'm willing to ACK
it going into -stable.

But this change impacted a lot of MDIO drivers and there were
regressions that needed to be fixed up the first time this stuff
went in.
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