Re: [PATCH 2/2] ASIX: Use only 11 bits of header for data size

[Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>]

On Thursday, July 28, 2011 05:18:06 PM Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 08:06:18AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Thursday, July 28, 2011 07:40:29 AM David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
> > > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:44:47 +0200
> > > 
> > > > The AX88772B uses only 11 bits of the header for the actual size. The
> > > > other bits
> > > > 
> > > > are used for something else. This causes dmesg full of messages:
> > > > 	asix_rx_fixup() Bad Header Length
> > > > 
> > > > This patch trims the check to only 11 bits. I believe on older chips,
> > > > the remaining 5 top bits are unused.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > Applied.
> > 
> > Hi, did you test it ?
> > 
> > I left NOTEs outside the commit message:
> > 
> > NOTE: If possible, can someone test/verify this patch with other ASIX
> > chips ? NOTE2: If Ack-ed, Greg, can you get this into -stable?
> 
> <formletter>
> 
> 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.

Yea I know ... I'm just so very tired (read dead). Sorry
> 
> </formletter>