[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH for-4.14.y 0/5] e1000e: Upstream fixes for linux-4.14.y

[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH for-4.14.y 0/5] e1000e: Upstream fixes for linux-4.14.y

[Amit Pundir]

+ Jeff and intel-wired-lan (moderated) mailing list.

On 27 November 2017 at 18:29, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 06:23:32PM +0530, Amit Pundir wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> Found few e100e upstream fixes from Benjamin Poirier in lede
>> source tree, https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git, and
>> these fixes seem reasonable enough for 4.14.y too.
>>
>> Also submitting an e1000e buffer overrun fix by Sasha Neftin.
>>
>> Cherry-picked and build tested for linux v4.14.2 for ARCH=arm/arm64.
>
>
> Any reason you did not cc: the maintainers for this driver and their
> mailing list?

No reason at all. Thanks for pointing that out. It didn't occur to me
to do that. I was marking only patch authors in cover letters so far.
I'll start adding respective maintainers and mailing list going
forward.

>
> Also, why is the maintainers of this driver not marking anything for
> stable?  They never do, is that for a reason?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

Regards,
Amit Pundir

[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH for-4.14.y 0/5] e1000e: Upstream fixes for linux-4.14.y

[Amit Pundir]

On 27 November 2017 at 18:23, Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@linaro.org> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> Found few e100e upstream fixes from Benjamin Poirier in lede
> source tree, https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git, and
> these fixes seem reasonable enough for 4.14.y too.
>
> Also submitting an e1000e buffer overrun fix by Sasha Neftin.
>
> Cherry-picked and build tested for linux v4.14.2 for ARCH=arm/arm64.
>
> Regards,
> Amit Pundir
>
>
> Benjamin Poirier (4):
>   e1000e: Fix error path in link detection
>   e1000e: Fix return value test
>   e1000e: Separate signaling for link check/link up
>   e1000e: Avoid receiver overrun interrupt bursts

Also all the above fixes from Benjamin Poirier are to be marked for
4.9 and first 3 fixes for 4.4, 3.18 as well. Build tested for
ARCH=arm/arm64.

Regards,
Amit Pundir

>
> Sasha Neftin (1):
>   e1000e: fix buffer overrun while the I219 is processing DMA
>     transactions
>
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/defines.h |  1 +
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/mac.c     | 11 +++++--
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/netdev.c  | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000e/phy.c     |  7 +++--
>  4 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>

[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH for-4.14.y 0/5] e1000e: Upstream fixes for linux-4.14.y

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 06:39:47PM +0530, Amit Pundir wrote:
> + Jeff and intel-wired-lan (moderated) mailing list.
> 
> On 27 November 2017 at 18:29, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 06:23:32PM +0530, Amit Pundir wrote:
> >> Hi Greg,
> >>
> >> Found few e100e upstream fixes from Benjamin Poirier in lede
> >> source tree, https://git.lede-project.org/?p=source.git, and
> >> these fixes seem reasonable enough for 4.14.y too.
> >>
> >> Also submitting an e1000e buffer overrun fix by Sasha Neftin.
> >>
> >> Cherry-picked and build tested for linux v4.14.2 for ARCH=arm/arm64.
> >
> >
> > Any reason you did not cc: the maintainers for this driver and their
> > mailing list?
> 
> No reason at all. Thanks for pointing that out. It didn't occur to me
> to do that. I was marking only patch authors in cover letters so far.
> I'll start adding respective maintainers and mailing list going
> forward.

Thanks, please do that.  All now queued up.

greg k-h