From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] sfc: Add workspace for GMAC bug workaround to MCDI MAC_STATS buffer
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:50:08 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100125.155008.197703478.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1264447680.2793.0.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:28:00 +0000
> From: Guido Barzini <gbarzini@solarflare.com>
>
> Due to a hardware bug in the SFC9000 family, the firmware must
> transfer raw GMAC statistics to host memory before aggregating them
> into the cooked (speed-independent) MAC statistics. Extend the stats
> buffer to support this.
>
> The length of the buffer is explicit in the MAC_STATS command, so this
> change is backward-compatible on both sides.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-25 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-25 19:28 [PATCH 1/2] sfc: Add workspace for GMAC bug workaround to MCDI MAC_STATS buffer Ben Hutchings
2010-01-25 19:36 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-01-25 23:50 ` David Miller [this message]
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