netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6 1/9] sfc: Wait at most 10ms for the MC to finish reading out MAC statistics

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Date:	Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:36:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6 1/9] sfc: Wait at most 10ms for the MC to
 finish reading out MAC statistics

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:33:28 +0100

> All of these 9 patches should also be applicable to 2.6.33.y, except
> that one hunk of "sfc: Consistently report short MCDI responses as EIO"
> is not applicable and should be dropped.
> 
> Some of the bug fixes are applicable to 2.6.32.y and maybe to 2.6.27.y,
> but the patches will need some adjustment.  I intend to send backported
> patches to stable@...nel.org separately.

There is zero way I'm applying 9 patches this late in the RC
series.

If you want this stuff to go into net-2.6 and get backported
to -stable, pick a very small (2 or 3) set of the most important
fixes.

Consistent -EIO error code returns and junk like that are
not appropriate this late in the RC, and definitely not -stable
material.
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