From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754881Ab0CaBQA (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:16:00 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:3353 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752546Ab0CaBP6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:15:58 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:15:22 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, mcarlson@broadcom.com, "David S. Miller" , Mike Pagano , Michael Chan , akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, stable-review@kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: [Stable-review] [007/116] tg3: Fix 5906 transmit hangs Message-ID: <20100330211522.2f1658fe@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20100330225600.398306625@linux.site> References: <20100330230600.GA28802@kroah.com> <20100330225600.398306625@linux.site> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:54:45 -0700 Greg KH wrote: > 2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let > us know. > > ------------------ > > From: Matt Carlson > > This is a resubmit backport of commit > 92c6b8d16a36df3f28b2537bed2a56491fb08f11 to kernel version 2.6.32. > The gentoo bug report can be found at > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301091. Thanks to Matt > Carlson for his assistance and working me to fix a regression caused > by the initial patch. The original description is as follows: > I think these two patches should be used instead, as they fix the bug without needing backports and keep the driver closer to upstream: 0e1406dd404ce55dbe8d68b4b5e2aed7e5c75fdb "tg3: Assign flags to fixes in start_xmit_dma_bug" 92c6b8d16a36df3f28b2537bed2a56491fb08f11 "tg3: Fix 5906 transmit hangs"