netdev - Re: [PATCH linux-firmware] linux-firmware: bnx2: Update mips firmware to fix iSCSI problems

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Date:	Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:49:10 +0000
From:	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	"'Eric Dumazet'" <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	"'ben@...adent.org.uk'" <ben@...adent.org.uk>
cc:	"'dwmw2@...radead.org'" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	"'netdev@...r.kernel.org'" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-firmware] linux-firmware: bnx2: Update mips
 firmware to fix iSCSI problems

Eric Dumazet wrote:

> Le dimanche 18 décembre 2011 à 20:13 -0800, Michael Chan a écrit :
> > New firmware fixes iSCSI problems with some LeftHand targets that
> don't
> > set TTT=0xffffffff for Data-In according to spec.  Firmware generates
> > exception warnings for this condition and becomes very slow.  This is
> > fixed by suppressing these warnings when using default error mask.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
> > ---
> >  WHENCE                      |    2 ++
> >  bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw  |  Bin 0 -> 92824 bytes
> >  bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw |  Bin 0 -> 103904 bytes
> >  3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw
> >  create mode 100644 bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw
> 
> IMHO, this should be applied _before_ the drivers/net patch.
> 

Ben,

If David Woodhouse is not available, can you help us apply this firmware
patch?