From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next 0/5][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2015-03-20 Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:41:02 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20150320.214102.118150337215691503.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1426899465-15789-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, nhorman@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com, jogreene@redhat.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:40981 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752940AbbCUBlE (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:41:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1426899465-15789-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:57:40 -0700 > This series contains updates to ixgb, e1000e, igb and igbvf. > > Eliezer and Todd provide patches to fix a potential issue found during code > inspection. When bringing down an interface netif_carrier_off() should > be one of the first things we do, since this will prevent the stack from > queueing more packets to this interface. > > Yanir provides a fix for e1000e that was found in validating i219, > where the call to e1000e_write_protect_nvm_ich8lan() is no longer > supported in newer hardware. Access to these registers causes a > system freeze in early steppings and is ignored in later steppings. Looks good, pulled, thanks Jeff.