From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> Date: Wed, 18 May 2016 14:40:50 +0200
> This patch, commit b555cf4a50c17a9714715a2d7c8574dca1a7b356 ("mlxsw: spectrum: > Reduce number of supported 802.1D bridges") reduced the resources the > device allocates during init. Newer firmware versions now force a hard > limit on these resources and thus require this patch. > > We would like to ask this commit be backported to stable kernels, so > that they can be used with newer firmware versions. Breaking existing working drivers with a firmware update is a terrible user experience, and in my opinion not a reason to do a -stable backport. Fix how you manage this stuff instead. This new behavior should be requested by drivers that can handle it, rather than retroactively forced upon existing setups.