Re: [PATCH] [BACKPORT] [3.14.56] bnx2x: Don't notify about scratchpad parities

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:37:34PM +0100, Patrick Schaaf wrote:
> On Friday 06 November 2015 09:32:46 Greg KH wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 11:18:37AM +0100, Patrick Schaaf wrote:
> > > bnx2x: Don't notify about scratchpad parities
> > > 
> > > This is a (trivial) "backport" of ad6afbe9578d1fa26680faf78c846bd8c00d1d6e
> > > to stable kernel 3.14.56.
> > 
> > This patch isn't in 4.1 either, do you want it there as well?
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> I didn't see the patch in 3.14.57 or 3.14.58 - could you please consider it 
> again (for all stable kernels that don't have it)?
> 
> My three machines with bnx2x interfaces have been running file with patch 
> 3.14.56, for the last 35 days. The original problematic event (spewing a 
> million messages which are suppressed by that patch), did not reoccur so far 
> (neither did any other issue, dmesg is completely empty since boot).
> 
> best regards
>   Patrick
> 
> Related earlier posts / reports, for reference:
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=144663711626469
> http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2015/11/05/48

Sorry for the long delay, now queued up.

greg k-h