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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [stable] [net v2] e1000: Fix driver to be used on PA RISC C8000
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:37:13 -0700
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On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 05:49:37PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> The checksum field in the EEPROM on HPPA is really not a
> checksum but a signature (0x16d6).  So allow 0x16d6 as the
> matching checksum on HPPA systems.
> 
> This issue is present on longterm/stable kernels, I have
> verified that this patch is applicable back to at least
> 2.6.32.y kernels.
> 
> v2- changed ifdef to use CONFIG_PARISC instead of __hppa__
> 
> CC: Guy Martin <gmsoft@tuxicoman.be>
> CC: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
> CC: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.kerlin.mff.cuni.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
> ---

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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.

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