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Date:   Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:04:40 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 116/122] bnxt_en: Convert to use netif_level()
 helpers.
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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@broadcom.com>
> > 
> > [ 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.

thanks,

greg k-h