netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] Altera Triple Speed Ethernet (TSE) Driver

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Date:	Sat, 26 Apr 2014 12:27:55 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vbridgers2013@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] Altera Triple Speed Ethernet (TSE) Driver

From: Vince Bridgers <vbridgers2013@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 16:58:07 -0500

> This series of patches addresses a handful of issues found in testing
> and reported by users of the Altera Triple Speed Ethernet soft IP.
> 
> The patches address the following issues (in summary)
> 
> 1) The SGDMA soft IP was found to incorrectly process receive packets
>    when the target physical address of the receive buffer was on
>    a boundary that's not 32-bit aligned. One of the patches addresses
>    this issue.
> 2) The pause quanta was not being set by the driver, one patch of this
>    series sets the pause quanta to the IEEE defined default value
>    since the hardware reset value is 0.
> 3) An issue in a error recovery path of the probe routine caused a 
>    kernel panic in the event a phy was probed and could not be found.
>    A patch addresses this issue. 
> 4) A change was made to the driver name for Ethtool support, and 
>    comments added to support an addition to Ethtool to support
>    the Altera Triple Speed Ethernet controller.

Since these are bug fixes I've applied them to 'net' instead of 'net-next'.

Please always submit your changes against the correct tree, thank you.
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