Bug#989451: Please backport "net: usb: cdc_ncm: don't spew notifications" (de658a195ee23ca6aaffe197d1d2ea040beea0a2)

[Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>]

Hi Josh,

On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 07:27:12PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Package: src:linux
> Version: 5.10.40-1
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
> 
> Some USB Ethernet devices using the cdc_ncm driver produce several of
> these messages per second:
> 
> Jun 03 19:25:17 s kernel: cdc_ncm 3-2.2:2.0 enx(mac address): 1000 mbit/s downlink 1000 mbit/s uplink
> 
> This results in substantial log noise and disk usage.
> 
> Please consider backporting the upstream patch "net: usb: cdc_ncm: don't
> spew notifications" (git commit
> de658a195ee23ca6aaffe197d1d2ea040beea0a2), which fixes this problem.

Can you please ask upstream stable folks to backport the commit? So we
can pick it automatically on respective import and reduce the Debian
delta to upstream 5.10.y accordingly.

(keep the bug or me in the loop so we have a chance to not miss it).

Regards,
Salvatore