netdev - Re: add "net: fec: Allow reception of frames bigger than 1522 bytes" to stable

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Message-Id: <20171206.162935.2259258305397185128.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 06 Dec 2017 16:29:35 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, andrew@...n.ch, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: add "net: fec: Allow reception of frames bigger than 1522
 bytes" to stable

From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 22:24:50 +0100

> Hello,
> 
> on an 4.9.x kernel using the freescale/fec driver "behind" a switch I
> had problems with packet reception.
> 
> Commit fbbeefdd2104 ("net: fec: Allow reception of frames bigger than
> 1522 bytes") fixed it for me and so I suggest to queue that one for
> stable. It can be cherry-picked to 4.9.x without conflict and IMHO
> should be applied to all stable branches before v4.14.

Ok, queued up.