From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758202Ab0CaVIz (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:08:55 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:46216 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752990Ab0CaVIx (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:08:53 -0400 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:39:26 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Chuck Ebbert 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: <20100331203926.GA15418@suse.de> References: <20100330230600.GA28802@kroah.com> <20100330225600.398306625@linux.site> <20100330211522.2f1658fe@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100330211522.2f1658fe@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:15:22PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > 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" I don't know, I'll defer to Matt here, this patch has gone in and out of the stable queue for a while now as he and some users have tested and had problems lots of times... Matt?