netdev - RE: net/usb/ax88179_178a driver broken in linux-3.12

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Date:	Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:54:02 -0000
From:	"David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	<mlord@...ox.com>, <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	<ming.lei@...onical.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Sarah Sharp" <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: RE: net/usb/ax88179_178a driver broken in linux-3.12

> From: Of David Miller
> > From: "David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
> > Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:04:11 -0000
> 
> > There is a patch to xhci-ring.c that should fix the SG problem.
> > http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg97176.html
> >
> > I think it should apply to the 3.12 sources.
> 
> David, please get this into Linus's tree and queued up for -stable
> as soon as possible, thank you.

What do I have to do to expedite it?
I thought that Sarah would have to push the patch through.

It might be necessary to limit the number of SG fragments that
the mass storage (etc) can generate to 63 (from unlimited).
That should be a 1 line change somewhere.

	David



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