Re: [Stable-review] [007/116] tg3: Fix 5906 transmit hangs

[Matt Carlson]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:39:26PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:15:22PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:54:45 -0700
> > Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > 2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let
> > > us know.
> > > 
> > > ------------------
> > > 
> > > From: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > This is a resubmit backport of commit
> > > 92c6b8d16a36df3f28b2537bed2a56491fb08f11 to kernel version 2.6.32.
> > > The gentoo bug report can be found at
> > > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301091. Thanks to Matt
> > > Carlson for his assistance and working me to fix a regression caused
> > > by the initial patch.  The original description is as follows:
> > > 
> > 
> > I think these two patches should be used instead, as they fix the
> > bug without needing backports and keep the driver closer to upstream:
> > 
> > 0e1406dd404ce55dbe8d68b4b5e2aed7e5c75fdb
> > "tg3: Assign flags to fixes in start_xmit_dma_bug"
> > 
> > 92c6b8d16a36df3f28b2537bed2a56491fb08f11
> > "tg3: Fix 5906 transmit hangs"
> 
> I don't know, I'll defer to Matt here, this patch has gone in and out of
> the stable queue for a while now as he and some users have tested and
> had problems lots of times...
> 
> Matt?

I'm O.K. with either path.  I supported Mike's patch because it was
minimal.  (All the bugs should be shaken out by now.)  If that isn't a
goal, then I guess I'd rather rubber stamp my own implementation.

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