Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] r8152; preserve device list format

From: Greg KH <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2023 11:12:21 +0100

On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 11:01:00AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> This is a partial revert of commit ec51fbd1b8a2 ("r8152:
> add USB device driver for config selection")
> 
> Keep a simplified version of the REALTEK_USB_DEVICE macro
> to avoid unnecessary reformatting of the device list. This
> makes new device ID additions apply cleanly across driver
> versions.
> 
> Fixes: ec51fbd1b8a2 ("r8152: add USB device driver for config selection")
> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <[email-masked]>
> ---
> The patch in
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email-masked]/
> will apply cleanly on top of this.
> 
> This fix will also prevent a lot of stable backporting hassle.

No need for this, just backport the original change to older kernels and
all will be fine.

Don't live with stuff you don't want to because of stable kernels,
that's not how this whole process works at all :)

thanks,

greg k-h