Re: [patch added to 3.12-stable] bnx2x: Add new device ids under the Qlogic vendor

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On 04/01/2016, 10:59 AM, Yuval Mintz wrote:
>> From: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections,
>> please let us know.
>>
>> ===============
>>
>> commit 9c9a6524b5fdf6cb57c9ff627b7f242a6a4e0b00 upstream.
>>
>> This adds support for 3 new PCI device combinations - 1077:16a1, 1077:16a4
>> and 1077:16ad.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Yuval Mintz <Yuval.Mintz@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi Jiri,
> 
> From the top of my head, I'm not sure 3.12 has the necessary phy code for
> supporting the new device IDs; We might find ourselves with dysfunctional
> devices.
> 
> I'll have to verify it with our link-team, but it would probably take a couple
> of days before I'll have a definite answer.

Hi, no problem. I am not going to make a release in the next days.

> BTW, why are we pushing for this to be backported to a stable kernel?
> Given that it's not really a bug fix.

This conforms to
 - New device IDs and quirks are also accepted.
of Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

thanks,
-- 
js
suse labs
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