[PATCH] ramips: mt7621: HW-NAT typo fix

[Daniel Golle]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 11:58:12AM -0700, Ilya Lipnitskiy wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 6:06 AM Daniel Golle <daniel at makrotopia.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 03:44:06PM +0300, Lucian Cristian wrote:
> > > This fixes Hardware Offload on MT7621
> >
> > I have already applied the fix for it in pending-5.10:
> >
> > https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=7f703716ae0e4cb4810eff37605b7594cef1edb8
> >
> > For the future, and to still give you review:
> > You shouldn't modify patches in backport-* as they represent commits in
> > linux.git and for sake of maintainability it's good to keep them
> > exactly as present in linux.git history so we can easily spot and
> > remove them once they trickly down into linux-stable).
> Not to nitpick, but if you mean torvalds/linux.git, then lots of
> patches in backport-5.10 are breaking this rule. For instance, all the
> recent mediatek offload work is still only in netdev/net-next.git, to
> be (hopefully) merged into torvalds/linux.git when the next merge
> window opens. Also, this particular fix has been submitted and will
> likely also be in net-next.git imminently:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-kernel/20210417072905.207032-1-dqfext@gmail.com/.
> 
> In addition to that, I would like to submit another fix to OpenWrt
> that is already in net-next.git, but now I'm confused - do I put it in
> pending-5.10 or backports-5.10? Please advise.

If it already made it to net-next chances are 99% that it will be in
linux.git soon and then make it's way to linux-stable.
Hence I'd put the patch in backports-5.10.
Only stuff you grab from upstream lists/patchwork or submitted yourself
but hasn't been accepted yet should go into pending-5.10.