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SubjectRe: severe regression in alx ethernet driver
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 11:16:10AM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:15:30 -0500 (EST)
>
> > From: Ldap Tester <ldap.tester@gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 11:00:08 -0300
> >
> >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70761
> >
> > Patches sitting in a bugzilla entry will simply rot.
> >
> > For upstream inclusion someone must formally submit them to the netdev
> > mailing list, with proper commit message, signoffs, etc. and then the
> > patch must be fully reviewed by the community.
> >
> > Only then will it be applied and make it upstream.
>
> And amusingly, the final comment in that bugzilla is someone asking
> the patch author to do exactly this.

They do at least have a signed-off-by in the patches attached to the bug,
so I'm working on touching up the descriptions and formatting, regression
testing them on my laptop that has an alx-driven E2200 in it (which isn't
affected by this bug), and then I can ship them up for proper review.

--
Jarod Wilson
jarod@redhat.com



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