On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 17:53 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 08:49:52AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Tue, 2021-09-21 at 17:04 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 07:30:42AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2021-09-20 at 18:44 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > > From: Michael Chan <michael.chan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > > > > > [ Upstream commit 871127e6ab0d6abb904cec81fc022baf6953be1f ] > > > > > > > > > > Use the various netif_level() helpers to simplify the C code. This was > > > > > suggested by Joe Perches. > > > > > > > > There isn't an actual change here. > > > > > > > > Unless this is a precursor to another patch, this isn't anything > > > > that should go into stable. > > > > > > > It is a dependancy for other fixes. > > > > Then it's useful/necessary to mark it as such when applying it. > > > > That's hard/difficult/messy to do :) Smiley faces don't make the work you do any easier. Nor better. You are specifically pulling dependencies. It doesn't seem particularly difficult to script.
