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Message-ID: <20100525181935.GA11150@kroah.com>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 11:19:35 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc: stable@...nel.org, Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Brandon <brandon@...p.org>, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [stable] [stable-2.6.32 PATCH] ixgbe: backport bug fix for tx
panic
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 12:15:12AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 17:46, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> wrote:
> > From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> >
> > backporting this commit:
> >
> > commit fdd3d631cddad20ad9d3e1eb7dbf26825a8a121f
> > Author: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
> > Date: Wed Feb 3 13:13:10 2010 +0000
> >
> > ixgbe: Fix return of invalid txq
> >
> > a developer had complained of getting lots of warnings:
> >
> > "eth16 selects TX queue 98, but real number of TX queues is 64"
> >
> > http://www.mail-archive.com/e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg02200.html
> >
> > As there was no follow up on that bug, I am submitting this
> > patch assuming that the other return points will not return
> > invalid txq's, and also that this fixes the bug (not tested).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@...ibm.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> > Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> >
> > CC: Brandon <brandon@...p.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> > ---
> >
> > drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 8 ++++++--
> > 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
>
> Greg - status? Did you queue this patch for the stable release and I missed it?
Nope, I missed it, sorry.
I'll make sure to get it for the next .32 round.
thanks,
greg k-h
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