Re: [PATCH 2/2] ASIX: Use only 11 bits of header for data size

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 08:06:18AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
> On Thursday, July 28, 2011 07:40:29 AM David Miller wrote:
> > From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:44:47 +0200
> > 
> > > The AX88772B uses only 11 bits of the header for the actual size. The
> > > other bits
> > > 
> > > are used for something else. This causes dmesg full of messages:
> > > 	asix_rx_fixup() Bad Header Length
> > > 
> > > This patch trims the check to only 11 bits. I believe on older chips, the
> > > remaining 5 top bits are unused.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Applied.
> 
> Hi, did you test it ?
> 
> I left NOTEs outside the commit message:
> 
> NOTE: If possible, can someone test/verify this patch with other ASIX chips ?
> NOTE2: If Ack-ed, Greg, can you get this into -stable?

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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

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