netdev - Re: dynamically set number of queues for 82598 devices in -stable

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Date:	Fri, 25 Mar 2016 16:22:56 +0100
From:	William Dauchy <william@...di.net>
To:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Cc:	William Dauchy <william@...di.net>,
	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: dynamically set number of queues for 82598 devices in -stable

Hi Jeff,

Any chance to get an opinion on that?

Thanks,

On Nov27 11:05, William Dauchy wrote:
> Hello Jeff,
> 
> I faced the problem described in commit 7e3f5c8:
> ixgbe: fix bounds checking in ixgbe_setup_tc for 82598
> 
> This patch resolves an issue where users were not able to dynamically
> set number of queues for 82598 via ethtool -L
> 
> 
> I backported it for my v4.1.x build but I was wondering if this could be
> a candidate for a backport in stable tree at least for v4.1.x.

-- 
William

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