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From:   Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 Mar 2021 19:31:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: Let GSWIP automatically set
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To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
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Hi Florian,

On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 7:09 PM Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> > It would be great to have this fix backported to Linux 5.4 and 5.10 to
> > get rid of one more blocker which prevents OpenWrt from switching to
> > this new in-tree driver.
>
> Given there is a Fixes: tag this should land at some point in the stable
> tree auto-selection. Stable fixes for networking patches follows a
> slightly different path:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst#n145
thank you very much for this link - I missed the news that net patches
should now also be Cc'ed to linux-stable
I think this simplifies the process (at least for me as contributor)

Also thank you for the Reviewed-by!


Best regards,
Martin