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From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH net-2.6/stable] tg3: Restrict phy ioctl
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 15:06:13 -0800
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On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 02:39:35PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:51:10PM -0800, Matt Carlson wrote:
> > If management firmware is present and the device is down, the firmware
> > will assume control of the phy.  If a phy access were allowed from the
> > host, it will collide with firmware phy accesses, resulting in
> > unpredictable behavior.  This patch fixes the problem by disallowing phy
> > accesses during the problematic condition.
> > 
> > Upstream commit ID f746a3136a61ae535c5d0b49a9418fa21edc61b5
> 
> There is no such upstream git commit id in Linus's tree.  What am I
> doing wrong here?

The commit is in Dave Miller's net-next-2.6 tree.