netdev - Re: [3.2.y] e1000: fix vlan processing regression

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Date:	Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:11:08 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>, sassmann@...hat.com,
	"Andrey Jr. Melnikov" <temnota@....ru>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [3.2.y] e1000: fix vlan processing regression

On Tue, 2012-10-23 at 18:21 -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 18:10:01 +0000
> 
> commit 52f5509fe8ccb607ff9b84ad618f244262336475 upstream.
> 
> This patch fixes a regression introduced by commit "e1000: do vlan
> cleanup (799d531)".
> 
> Apparently some e1000 chips (not mine) are sensitive about the order of
> setting vlan filter and vlan stripping/inserting functionality. So this
> patch changes the order so it's the same as before vlan cleanup.
[...]

Added to the queue, thanks.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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