netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/2] mv643xx

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Message-Id: <20090429.172454.88395298.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:24:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	buytenh@...tstofly.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mv643xx_eth fixes for 2.6.30

From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:56:25 +0200

> Two more fixes for mv643xx_eth for 2.6.30:
> 1. Fix OOM handling, mv643xx_eth will currently just get into an
>    infinite netdev_alloc_skb() loop on OOM due to a logic bug.
> 2. Fix problem where hardware 64bit MIB counters are actually 32bit
>    (and reads from the upper and lower halves have the same effect),
>    which can cause the software stats counters to spuriously increment
>    by some multiple of 2^32 if a packet comes in at the right moment.
> 
> Since these should also go into 2.6.29.X, I added "Cc: stable@...nel.org"
> on both.
> 
> Please apply, thanks!

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!
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