Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.14 10/39] mwifiex: Run SET_BSS_MODE when changing from P2P to STATION vif-type

From: Sasha Levin <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 09:03:42 -0500

On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 10:06:19AM -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 5:18 PM Sasha Levin <[email-masked]> wrote:
>>
>> From: Jonas Dreßler <[email-masked]>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit c2e9666cdffd347460a2b17988db4cfaf2a68fb9 ]
>...
>> This does not fix any particular bug and just "looked right", so there's
>> a small chance it might be a regression.
>
>I won't insist on rejecting this one, but especially given this
>sentence, this doesn't really pass the smell test for -stable
>candidates. It's stuff like this that pushes me a bit toward the camp
>of those who despise the ML-based selection methods here, even though
>it occasionally (or even often) may produce some good.

I have hundreds of examples of patches that claim they are just an
improvement but fix a serious bug :)

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Thanks,
Sasha