From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH] [BACKPORT] [3.14.56] bnx2x: Don't notify about scratchpad parities Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2016 06:25:45 +0000 Message-ID: <20160301062544.GG3200@kroah.com> References: <2866398.tTChUFNQ37@rofl> <20151106173246.GA6771@kroah.com> <1686003.8SMzEu8fpg@rofl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , Yuval Mintz To: Patrick Schaaf Return-path: Received: from mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com ([198.2.177.1]:5025 "EHLO mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750771AbcCAGZq (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Mar 2016 01:25:46 -0500 Received: from pmta06.mandrill.prod.suw01.rsglab.com (127.0.0.1) by mail177-1.suw61.mandrillapp.com id hqkquk22rtkt for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2016 06:25:45 +0000 (envelope-from ) In-Reply-To: <1686003.8SMzEu8fpg@rofl> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 02:37:34PM +0100, Patrick Schaaf wrote: > On Friday 06 November 2015 09:32:46 Greg KH wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 11:18:37AM +0100, Patrick Schaaf wrote: > > > bnx2x: Don't notify about scratchpad parities > > > > > > This is a (trivial) "backport" of ad6afbe9578d1fa26680faf78c846bd8c00d1d6e > > > to stable kernel 3.14.56. > > > > This patch isn't in 4.1 either, do you want it there as well? > > Hi Greg, > > I didn't see the patch in 3.14.57 or 3.14.58 - could you please consider it > again (for all stable kernels that don't have it)? > > My three machines with bnx2x interfaces have been running file with patch > 3.14.56, for the last 35 days. The original problematic event (spewing a > million messages which are suppressed by that patch), did not reoccur so far > (neither did any other issue, dmesg is completely empty since boot). > > best regards > Patrick > > Related earlier posts / reports, for reference: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=144663711626469 > http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2015/11/05/48 Sorry for the long delay, now queued up. greg k-h