netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] skge: Add DMA mask quirk for Marvell 88E8001 on ASUS P5NSLI motherboard

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Date:	Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:49:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jan.ceuleers@...puter.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, graham.gower@...il.com,
	shemminger@...tta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] skge: Add DMA mask quirk for Marvell 88E8001 on
 ASUS P5NSLI motherboard

From: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@...puter.org>
Date: Mon,  8 Oct 2012 20:34:50 +0200

> From: Graham Gower <graham.gower@...il.com>
> 
> Marvell 88E8001 on an ASUS P5NSLI motherboard is unable to send/receive
> packets on a system with >4gb ram unless a 32bit DMA mask is used.
> 
> This issue has been around for years and a fix was sent 3.5 years ago, but
> there was some debate as to whether it should instead be fixed as a PCI quirk.
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg88670.html
> 
> However, 18 months later a similar workaround was introduced for another
> chipset exhibiting the same problem.
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg142287.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Graham Gower <graham.gower@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Ceuleers <jan.ceuleers@...puter.org>
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable.
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