From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] e1000e: workaround hw errata Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:16:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090126.121647.41760330.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090124013527.2832.92374.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, bruce.w.allan@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:41943 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753354AbZAZUQo (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:16:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090124013527.2832.92374.stgit@lost.foo-projects.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:35:31 -0800 > There is a hardware errata in some revisions of the 82574 that needs > to be worked around in the driver by setting a register bit at init. > > If this bit is not set A0 versions of the 82574 can generate > tx hangs. > > Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg > Signed-off-by: Bruce Allan > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied, thanks Jeff.