Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: mv643xx_eth: Make TSO disabled by default

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 18:00:37 +0100

> Dear Ezequiel Garcia,
> 
> On Sat,  1 Nov 2014 12:30:20 -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
>> Data corruption has been observed to be produced by TSO. For instance,
>> accessing files on a NFS-server with TSO enabled results in different data
>> transferred each time.
>> 
>> This has been observed only on Kirkwood platforms, i.e. with the mv643xx_eth
>> driver. Same tests on platforms using the mvneta ethernet driver have
>> passed without errors.
>> 
>> Make TSO disabled by default for now, until we can found a proper fix
>> for the regression.
>> 
>> Fixes: 3ae8f4e0b98 ('net: mv643xx_eth: Implement software TSO')
>> Reported-by: Slawomir Gajzner <slawomir.gajzner@gmail.com>
>> Reported-by: Julien D'Ascenzio <jdascenzio@yahoo.fr>
>> Signed-off-by: Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@free-electrons.com>
> 
> Shouldn't you have a:
> 
>    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.16+

Networking patches do not get sent to -stable that way.

Instead, people specifically request that I queue up the change
for -stable and I submit it by hand at the appropriate time.