Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] Altera Triple Speed Ethernet (TSE) Driver

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Vince Bridgers <vbridgers2013@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:58:07 -0500

> This series of patches addresses a handful of issues found in testing
> and reported by users of the Altera Triple Speed Ethernet soft IP.
> 
> The patches address the following issues (in summary)
> 
> 1) The SGDMA soft IP was found to incorrectly process receive packets
>    when the target physical address of the receive buffer was on
>    a boundary that's not 32-bit aligned. One of the patches addresses
>    this issue.
> 2) The pause quanta was not being set by the driver, one patch of this
>    series sets the pause quanta to the IEEE defined default value
>    since the hardware reset value is 0.
> 3) An issue in a error recovery path of the probe routine caused a 
>    kernel panic in the event a phy was probed and could not be found.
>    A patch addresses this issue. 
> 4) A change was made to the driver name for Ethtool support, and 
>    comments added to support an addition to Ethtool to support
>    the Altera Triple Speed Ethernet controller.

Since these are bug fixes I've applied them to 'net' instead of 'net-next'.

Please always submit your changes against the correct tree, thank you.