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Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 16:31:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net 0/4][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 13:07:36 -0700
> This series contains updates to e1000e only.
>
> David provides four fixes for e1000e, first is a workaround for a hardware
> erratum on 82579 devices which experienced packet loss in gigabit and 100
> speeds when interconnect between the PHY and MAC is exiting K1 power saving
> state. Second expands the scope of a workaround to include i217 and i218
> parts as well to address over aggressive transmit behavior when connecting
> at 10Mbs half-duplex. Next is to resolve a reported link flap issue on
> 82579 parts which was root caused as an interoperability problem between
> 82579 and at least some Broadcom PHYs in the Energy Efficient Ethernet wake
> mechanism. Lastly, restricts the workaround of putting the PHY into MDIO
> slow mode to access the PHY id to relevant parts since this issue has been
> fixed on the newer hardware.
>
> The following are changes since commit 9d4619c492c84e4c1e6d7127f1cbf55da04599d0:
> Altera TSE: ALTERA_TSE should depend on HAS_DMA
> and are available in the git repository at:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net master
Pulled, thanks Jeff.
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