netdev - Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 0/18] spidernet driver bug fixes

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Date:	Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:12:31 +1000
From:	Michael Ellerman <michael@...erman.id.au>
To:	Linas Vepstas <linas@...tin.ibm.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	cbe-oss-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 0/18] spidernet driver bug fixes

On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 14:17 -0500, Linas Vepstas wrote:
> Jeff, please apply for the 2.6.23 kernel tree.  The pach series
> consists of two major bugfixes, and several bits of cleanup.
> 
> The major bug fixes are: 
> 
> 1) a rare but fatal bug involving "RX ram full" messages, 
>    which results in a driver deadlock.
> 
> 2) misconfigured TX interrupts, causing a sever performance
>    degardation for small packets.

I realise it's late, but shouldn't "major bugfixes" be going into 22 ?

cheers

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