linux-kernel - Re: [Stable-review] [007/116] tg3: Fix 5906 transmit hangs

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Message-ID: <20100330211522.2f1658fe@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 30 Mar 2010 21:15:22 -0400
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	mcarlson@...adcom.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Mike Pagano <mpagano@...too.org>,
	Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, stable-review@...nel.org,
	alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Stable-review] [007/116] tg3: Fix 5906 transmit hangs

On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:54:45 -0700
Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> wrote:

> 2.6.32-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let
> us know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@...adcom.com>
> 
> This is a resubmit backport of commit
> 92c6b8d16a36df3f28b2537bed2a56491fb08f11 to kernel version 2.6.32.
> The gentoo bug report can be found at
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301091. Thanks to Matt
> Carlson for his assistance and working me to fix a regression caused
> by the initial patch.  The original description is as follows:
> 

I think these two patches should be used instead, as they fix the
bug without needing backports and keep the driver closer to upstream:

0e1406dd404ce55dbe8d68b4b5e2aed7e5c75fdb
"tg3: Assign flags to fixes in start_xmit_dma_bug"

92c6b8d16a36df3f28b2537bed2a56491fb08f11
"tg3: Fix 5906 transmit hangs"
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