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

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Message-ID: <20131202191807.GA7395@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:18:07 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	Mark Lord <mlord@...ox.com>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	ming.lei@...onical.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net/usb/ax88179_178a driver broken in linux-3.12

On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 11:08:36AM -0800, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 10:05:54AM -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> > On 13-12-02 04:30 AM, David Laight wrote:
> > >> From: Mark Lord
> > >> Sent: 30 November 2013 02:59
> > >> To: Sarah Sharp; David Laight
> > >> Cc: David Miller; eric.dumazet@...il.com; ming.lei@...onical.com; netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-
> > >> usb@...r.kernel.org
> > >> Subject: Re: net/usb/ax88179_178a driver broken in linux-3.12
> > >>
> > >> On 13-11-19 08:44 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
> > >>> On 13-11-19 05:04 AM, David Laight wrote:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Which changes did you revert?
> > >>>
> > >>> Just the bits that changed how the headroom/tailroom sizes
> > >>> were checked and adjusted.  See attachment for the revert patch
> > >>> I am using here.  My mailer unfortunately likes to mangle inline patches.
> > >>>
> > > ...
> > >>
> > >> Two kernels later, and this regression has still not been fixed.
> > >>
> > >> A simple revert, folks.
> > > 
> > > Reverting the ax88179_178a driver doesn't fix the problem.
> > > I'm seen tx/rx issues with it on much older kernels that don't
> > > appear with a current kernel and the fixed xhci code.
> > > 
> > > Sarah needs to feed the xhci_ring.c fix through into stable.
> > 
> > Oh, I agree.  But Linus makes a MASSIVE distinction between things
> > that have always been broken, and REGRESSIONS from the immediately
> > prior kernel that can be tracked to a single update.
> > 
> > Let's see some action, here folks!
> 
> I'm working on it.  You will probably have to wait for -rc3, depending
> on when Greg sends his next pull request.  I will Cc you on the pull
> request and patch, which should be sent out today.

It's impossible to get into -rc2 given that it was released last week :)
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