netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] net: davinci_emac: Fix interrupt requests and error handling

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Date:	Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:33:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	christian.riesch@...cron.at
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, f.fainelli@...il.com,
	prabhakar.csengg@...il.com, mugunthanvnm@...com,
	grygorii.strashko@...com, jon@...gle.org,
	davinci-linux-open-source@...ux.davincidsp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] net: davinci_emac: Fix interrupt requests and
 error handling

From: Christian Riesch <christian.riesch@...cron.at>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:46:25 +0100

> since commit 6892b41d9701283085b655c6086fb57a5d63fa47 (Linux 3.11) the
> davinci_emac driver is broken. After doing ifconfig down, ifconfig up,
> requesting the interrupts for the driver fails. The interface remains dead
> until the board is rebooted.
> 
> The first patch in this patchset reverts commit
> 6892b41d9701283085b655c6086fb57a5d63fa47 partially and makes the driver
> useable again.
> 
> During the work on the first patch, a number of bugs in the error handling
> of the driver's ndo_open code were found. The second patch fixes these bugs.
> 
> I believe the first patch meets the rules for stable kernels, I therefore added
> the stable tag to this patch. The second patch is just cleanup, the code
> that is fixed by this patch is only executed in case of an error.

Series applied and patch #1 queued up for -stable, thanks!
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