On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 09:30 -0700, Sarveshwar.Bandi@Emulex.Com wrote: > Ben, > I am attaching the revised patches as per your comments. I was not > sure how to handle patches (4 of them) which involved changes to other > drivers too. I intend to open separate bugs for each of them and send > them. Hope that is ok. No, there's no need to open more bugs. > I have also taken care of your comment to not change the return value > in ndo_vlan_rx_[add/kill]_vid > (8e586137e6b63af1e881b328466ab5ffbe562510). The patches also contain > the upstream commit id thanks to your git-format-patch-for-backport > script. Thanks. So the remaining 4 changes are: 68aad78 sweep the floors and convert some .get_drvinfo routines to strlcpy e5686ad netdev: make net_device_ops const It's absolutely fine to apply just the parts of these that affect your driver, as in your original series. 8e58613 net: make vlan ndo_vlan_rx_[add/kill]_vid return error value This should not be applied at all, as we don't want to change the kernel API. 786f528 ethtool: Null-terminate filename passed to ethtool_ops::flash_device I think this is an important bug fix (well I would do :-) so I'll apply it and also propose to David Miller that it goes into stable updates. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. - Bill Gates
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