From: Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org>
To: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com>
Cc: Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev list <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] bnx2x: LSO code was broken on BE platforms
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2010 04:14:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292127293.3136.261.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291808589.30114.65.camel@lb-tlvb-vladz>
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On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 13:43 +0200, Vladislav Zolotarov wrote:
> Make the LSO code work on BE platforms: parsing_data field of
> a parsing BD (PBD) for 57712 was improperly composed which made FW read wrong
> values for TCP header's length and offset and, as a result, the corresponding
> PCI device was performing bad DMA reads triggering EEH.
[...]
This fix looks like it should go into the stable/longterm series. Since
this driver has changed a lot since 2.6.32, you would need to provide a
backported patch for that.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings, Debian Developer and kernel team member
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-12 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-08 11:43 [PATCH net-next 1/4] bnx2x: LSO code was broken on BE platforms Vladislav Zolotarov
2010-12-10 4:50 ` David Miller
2010-12-12 4:14 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-12-12 13:54 ` Vladislav Zolotarov
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