From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] e1000: always call e1000_check_for_link() on e1000_ce4100 MACs. Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2011 07:10:49 -0700 Message-ID: <20110707141049.GD27648@kroah.com> References: <1310044617-22978-1-git-send-email-nschichan@freebox.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jeff Kirsher , Dirk Brandewie , netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, Florian Fainelli To: nschichan@freebox.fr Return-path: Received: from out5.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.29]:44114 "EHLO out5.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752807Ab1GGOLm (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jul 2011 10:11:42 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1310044617-22978-1-git-send-email-nschichan@freebox.fr> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 03:16:57PM +0200, nschichan@freebox.fr wrote: > From: Nicolas Schichan > > Interrupts about link lost or rx sequence errors are not reported by > the ce4100 hardware, leading to transitions from link UP to link DOWN > never being reported. > > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Schichan > --- > drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 11 +++++++---- > 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly.