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Message-ID: <1365713840.9609.61.camel@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:57:20 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ 024/171 ] sfc: lock TX queues when calling
netif_device_detach()
On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 16:54 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 21:42 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 16:25 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> >
> > > 3.6.11.2 stable review patch.
> > > If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > From: Daniel Pieczko <dpieczko@...arflare.com>
> > >
> > > [ Upstream commit c2f3b8e3a44b6fe9e36704e30157ebe1a88c08b1 ]
> > >
> > > The assertion of netif_device_present() at the top of
> > > efx_hard_start_xmit() may fail if we don't do this.
> >
> > You should also cherry-pick commit 35205b211c8d 'sfc: Disable soft
> > interrupt handling during efx_device_detach_sync()' on top of this.
> >
>
> Hmm, I had that in my quilt queue, but commented it out. I guess it
> didn't apply well, and it was a bit too much to back port blindly. I'll
> take another look.
Strange, it's a trivial patch that applied fine. I wonder why I
commented it out?
-- Steve
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