On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 06:19:20PM +0800, meljbao@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 8/11/22 4:52 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 11, 2022 at 04:39:51PM +0800, Linjun Bao wrote:
> > > commit 7c496de538ee ("igc: Remove _I_PHY_ID checking") upstream,
> > > backported to stable kernel 5.4 to support i225 Ethernet adapters.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Linjun Bao <meljbao@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > What happened to the original commit message and signed off by lines,
> > and why not cc: everyone involved in the original commit also?
> >
> I wrongly re-send this commit to mainline initially, then Tony guided me
> submitting to the stable tree with Option#3 [1]. Sorry I did not involve
> everyone in the original commit which I should. I re-send this commit
> because I encounter probe failure with i225-LM Ethernet card on liuux-5.4,
> and the original commit could not be applied to 5.4 directly, and this
> duplicated patch has been tested with i225-LM. I would like this commit is
> backported to linux-5.4, please correct me if I am doing the wrong thing.
>
> Regards
> Joseph
>
> [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#procedure-for-submitting-patches-to-the-stable-tree
The original commit worked just fine, why not just send that?
I've now queued it up, thanks.
greg k-h
