netdev - Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: fix for 82599 erratum on Header Splitting

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Message-ID: <1299311467.26413.31.camel@jtkirshe-MOBL1>
Date:	Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:51:07 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	"Skidmore, Donald C" <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	"stable@...nel.org" <stable@...nel.org>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: fix for 82599 erratum on Header Splitting

On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 23:44 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:06:07PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > From: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>
> > 
> > We have found a hardware erratum on 82599 hardware that can lead to
> > unpredictable behavior when Header Splitting mode is enabled.  So
> > we are no longer enabling this feature on affected hardware.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>
> > Tested-by: Stephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@...el.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |    4 ++++
> 
> I'm confused, why did you just send this patch to me?
> 
> What am I supposed to do with it?
> 
> greg k-h

This is the fix for ixgbe (that Ben and others pointed out) which has
been accepted into Linus's tree which did not apply to stable-2.6.32
tree.  This is the updated patch that apply's to the stable-2.6.32 tree.

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