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Date:   Wed, 30 Nov 2022 20:50:26 +0200
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>
To:     Jerry.Ray@microchip.com
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] dsa: lan9303: Add 3 ethtool stats
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On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 06:12:54PM +0000, Jerry.Ray@microchip.com wrote:
> Won't be able to get to stats64 this cycle.  Looking to migrate to phylink
> first.  This is a pretty old driver.
> 
> Understand you don't know me - yet.

It would be good if you first prepared a bug fix patch for the existing
kernel stack memory leakage, and submit that to the net.git tree.
The net.git is merged back into net-next.git every ~Thursday, and
generally speaking, either you wait for bug fixes to land back into
net-next before you submit new net-next material in the same areas,
or the netdev and linux-next maintainers will have to resolve the merge
conflict between trees manually. Not a huge deal, but it is kind of a
nuisance for backports (to not be able to linearize a series of cherry
picks) and all in all, it's best to organize your work such that you
don't conflict with yourself.