From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: fix for 82599 erratum on Header Splitting Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 23:44:19 -0800 Message-ID: <20110305074419.GA19596@suse.de> References: <1299308767-28735-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Don Skidmore , stable@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Kirsher Return-path: Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:39384 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751068Ab1CEHnm (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Mar 2011 02:43:42 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1299308767-28735-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:06:07PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > From: Don Skidmore > > 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. > > Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore > Tested-by: Stephen Ko > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher > --- > drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 4 ++++ I'm confused, why did you just send this patch to me? What am I supposed to do with it? greg k-h