On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 12:11:50PM +0100, Steen Hegelund wrote: > The 12/20/2018 11:31, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 10:08:16AM +0100, Steen Hegelund wrote: > > > When doing indirect access in the Ocelot chip, a command is setup, > > > issued and then we need to poll until the result is ready. The polling > > > timeout is specified in milliseconds in the datasheet and not in > > > register access attempts. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Steen Hegelund <[email protected]> > > > > Hi Steen > > > > Have you seen real issues with this code? You have marked this for > > net, indicating it is a bug fix. If it is a real fix, please provide a > > fixes: tag. > > > > Thanks > > Andrew > > Hi Andrew, > > It is not a bug on the currently supported platform, but we observed > that the code does not work properly on other platforms that we want to > support as the timing requirements there are different. So maybe this > is rather an improvement than a fix... > > Should this rather go to net-next?
The requirements for stable are listed here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html net-next seems a better fit. Andrew
