From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Kirsher Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: fix for 82599 erratum on Header Splitting Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:51:07 -0800 Message-ID: <1299311467.26413.31.camel@jtkirshe-MOBL1> References: <1299308767-28735-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> <20110305074419.GA19596@suse.de> Reply-To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha1"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-zukfJ9MKHKboO02ECjRY" Cc: "Skidmore, Donald C" , "stable@kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" To: Greg KH Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:12581 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750982Ab1CEHyp (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2011 02:54:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20110305074419.GA19596@suse.de> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: --=-zukfJ9MKHKboO02ECjRY Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 23:44 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:06:07PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > From: Don Skidmore > >=20 > > We have found a hardware erratum on 82599 hardware that can lead to > > unpredictable behavior when Header Splitting mode is enabled. So > > we are no longer enabling this feature on affected hardware. > >=20 > > Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore > > Tested-by: Stephen Ko > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher > > --- > > drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 4 ++++ >=20 > I'm confused, why did you just send this patch to me? >=20 > What am I supposed to do with it? >=20 > greg k-h This is the fix for ixgbe (that Ben and others pointed out) which has been accepted into Linus's tree which did not apply to stable-2.6.32 tree. This is the updated patch that apply's to the stable-2.6.32 tree. --=-zukfJ9MKHKboO02ECjRY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAABAgAGBQJNcetrAAoJECTsCADr/EWULXkIAK7PVWXN4Fskpn6Nh+4j21mc MHGf0iDZwIWQ1aWdJYysgPRcRw3cI2ZZSIn+8JWdiIqj/AbUhvSSfbFUH7UcJjiH 2IY50rksJOq1fwvFmD1SbzjpZTmkGaLPScZ5QJWI7TUdhMpY9SXNRm93+wSF8bWc eM9K9IkGHokcDeVSZ5t9ToXY1hYonsrpPQQJ6HFJ8wTQdB2ObpqSHFpy3B3Eza7C UcMLx4RwkeixZXhX7u4cZI2DKleb7yQevGkqFtA7WBtm7JoVdDiU79rSRIq8tO5G W3qbTqvCIP4zK9bkkxoU97433NzVYb70f1LRsbyrLxpQZk/z+RyHSPah5W90NXU= =j174 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-zukfJ9MKHKboO02ECjRY--