Re: [PATCH 1/1] tg3: Avoid Send BD corruption

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: "Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:59:13 -0700

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 10:46:18PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> > Are users really hitting this or was this discovered by your own
> > internal testing and verification?
> 
> The bug was discovered by our own internal testing, but this bug is
> severe enough to warrant submission to the net-2.6 kernel.  I'll be
> sending a patch to stable as well.
> 
> These chips are relatively new so there isn't a whole lot of opportunity
> for users to experience the problem yet.  As the chips are distributed,
> the likelyhood that users will encounter this problem is pretty high.

That doesn't matter.  That isn't the criteria for inclusion outside of
the merge window, or into -stable.

You should read postings such as the following one and the other ones
in it's thread so that you can become familiar with the criteria:

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122048757705315&w=2

And by those descriptions, this patch is not appropriate and I'm
therefore not going to try and submit it for 2.6.27 and risk getting
my head chopped off by Linus again in public.