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   remotes/brancher/net-next-2025-09-11--15-00 (v6.17-rc4-1105-gacfdf00c495b)
   remotes/brancher/net-next-2025-09-11--18-00 (v6.17-rc4-1099-ga7c886c45e10)

==== BASE IDENTICAL ====
==== COMMIT DIFF ====
diff --git a/tmp/tmp.fBkzWmisd7 b/tmp/tmp.0A9HjdOwCP
index c63b19335750..0f2b4b1b6d0f 100644
--- a/tmp/tmp.fBkzWmisd7
+++ b/tmp/tmp.0A9HjdOwCP
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 nipa: config: disable kmemleak auto scan
+selftests: net: fix server bind failure in sctp_vrf.sh
 nipa: config: x86: disable GPUs and sound
 nipa: drv: net: add timeout
 nipa: forwarding: set timeout to 3 hours
@@ -10,10 +11,22 @@ nipa: timestamp - try waking
 nipa: profile (time) test output
 nipa: config: x86: use periodic HZ tick
 nipa: disable 6.17's merge window kunit tests
-nipa: dbg net/sctp_vrf.sh
 nipa: disable random kunit tests
+octeon_ep:fix VF MAC address lifecycle handling
+net: ethtool: handle EOPNOTSUPP from ethtool get_ts_info() method
 rds: ib: Increment i_fastreg_wrs before bailing out
 net: ena: fix duplicate Autoneg setting in get_link_ksettings
+net: stmmac: move timestamping/ptp init to stmmac_hw_setup() caller
+net: stmmac: move PTP support check into stmmac_init_timestamping()
+net: stmmac: add stmmac_setup_ptp()
+net: stmmac: rename stmmac_init_ptp()
+net: stmmac: move stmmac_init_ptp() messages into function
+net: stmmac: add __stmmac_release() to complement __stmmac_open()
+net: stmmac: unexport stmmac_init_tstamp_counter()
+net: stmmac: fix stmmac_xdp_open() clk_ptp_ref error cleanup
+net: stmmac: fix PTP error cleanup in __stmmac_open()
+net: stmmac: disable PTP clock after unregistering PTP
+net: stmmac: ptp: improve handling of aux_ts_lock lifetime
 net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: remove unused support for PPS event capture
 net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: remove chip->evcap_config
 net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: remove chip->trig_config
@@ -31,7 +44,6 @@ net/mlx5: Refactor devcom to use match attributes
 net: natsemi: fix `rx_dropped` double accounting on `netif_rx()` failure
 ionic: use int type for err in ionic_get_module_eeprom_by_page
 net/tcp: Fix a NULL pointer dereference when using TCP-AO with TCP_REPAIR.
-Merge tag 'bpf-fixes' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf
 net: mana: Reduce waiting time if HWC not responding
 net: phy: fixed_phy: remove two function stubs
 net: pcs: rzn1-miic: Add RZ/T2H MIIC support
@@ -115,21 +127,3 @@ net: bridge: BROPT_FDB_LOCAL_VLAN_0: Look up FDB on VLAN 0 on miss
 net: bridge: Introduce BROPT_FDB_LOCAL_VLAN_0
 syztest
 net/cls_cgroup: Fix task_get_classid() during qdisc run
-Merge branch 'bpf-reject-bpf_timer-for-preempt_rt'
-selftests/bpf: Skip timer cases when bpf_timer is not supported
-bpf: Reject bpf_timer for PREEMPT_RT
-tcp_bpf: Call sk_msg_free() when tcp_bpf_send_verdict() fails to allocate psock->cork.
-bpf: Tell memcg to use allow_spinning=false path in bpf_timer_init()
-bpf: Allow fall back to interpreter for programs with stack size <= 512
-rqspinlock: Choose trylock fallback for NMI waiters
-xsk: Fix immature cq descriptor production
-bpf: Update the list of BPF selftests maintainers
-Merge branch 'fix-bpf_strnstr-len-error'
-Merge branch 'selftests-bpf-fix-expression-result-unused-warnings-with-icecc'
-selftests/bpf: Add tests for bpf_strnstr
-selftests/bpf: Fix "expression result unused" warnings with icecc
-bpf: Fix bpf_strnstr() to handle suffix match cases better
-selftests/bpf: Extend crypto_sanity selftest with invalid dst buffer
-bpf: Fix out-of-bounds dynptr write in bpf_crypto_crypt
-bpf: Check the helper function is valid in get_helper_proto
-bpf, cpumap: Disable page_pool direct xdp_return need larger scope