Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Networking for Linux 7.0

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:40:08 -0800

On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:07:18 -0800 Jeff Johnson wrote:
> On 2/11/2026 9:30 AM, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > Hi Linus!
> > 
> > I'm not aware of any conflicts with other trees, even if this includes some
> > changes to printk for the sake of netconsole.  
> 
> There is one conflict between the refactored ath12k driver and the char-misc
> tree. This was correctly addressed in linux-next:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/[email-masked]/

Will there be an effort at some point to improve how the MHI "bus"
is structured? Maybe this is not a great example but we keep seeing
patches that touch a driver + the bus. Clearly indicating IMHO that
there's no proper abstraction / separation between the bus and its
users..