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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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)
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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.