On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 12:50:27PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This is a backport of the mainline commit b36c598c999c ("ice:
> Updates to Tx scheduler code"). This change is required for the
> driver to work with the latest firmware. Without this patch,
> the driver fails probe.
Note, this is a big change. You can't have these systems just run the
old firmware? The fact that you require a kernel change for newer
firmware, isn't the best, you don't provide backwards compatibility
somehow?
I'm all for adding new device ids and the like to stable kernels, but to
backport new functionality just to get newer hardware to work on older
kernels, is not the goal of the LTS kernel trees. Why can't you just
have users use 4.20 or newer? There shouldn't be anything keeping them
from doing that and just updating to the latest stable release every 4
months or so, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
