netdev - Re: [net-next 00/14][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2013.01.27

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Message-ID: <1359342014.2255.59.camel@jtkirshe-mobl>
Date:	Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:00:14 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
	bruce.w.allan@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 00/14][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates
 2013.01.27

On Sun, 2013-01-27 at 19:07 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 02:39:39 -0800
> 
> > This series contains updates to e1000e only.  All the updates come
> > from Bruce Allan and most of the patch fix or enable features on
> > i217/i218.  Most notably is patch 03 "e1000e: add support for IEEE-1588
> > PTP", which is v2 of the patch based on feedback from Stephen Hemminger.
> > 
> > Also patch 04 "e1000e: enable ECC on I217/I218 to catch packet buffer
> > memory errors" should be queued up for stable (as well as net) trees, but
> > the patch does not apply cleanly to either of those trees currently.
> > So I will work with Bruce to provide a version of the patch which will
> > apply cleanly to net (and stable) and we can queue it up at that point
> > for stable 3.5 tree.
> > 
> > The remaining patches are general cleanups of the code.
> 
> Thanks, please provide more commentary like this in future
> pull requests, it helps me a lot and it does get added to the
> merge commit I make when I pull from your tree.

Your right, I have been neglectful in doing this and will be more
verbose in future pull requests.  Thanks Dave!

> 
> > 
> > The following are changes since commit 031554eab078705edb96e9a39665597e3fd22781:
> >   Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-next
> > and are available in the git repository at:
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-next master
> 
> Pulled, thanks Jeff.



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