netdev - Re: [PATCH net 5.7] r8169: change back SG and TSO to be disabled by default

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Date:   Mon, 06 Apr 2020 10:12:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     hkallweit1@...il.com
Cc:     nic_swsd@...ltek.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 5.7] r8169: change back SG and TSO to be disabled
 by default

From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2020 23:52:25 +0200

> There has been a number of reports that using SG/TSO on different chip
> versions results in tx timeouts. However for a lot of people SG/TSO
> works fine. Therefore disable both features by default, but allow users
> to enable them. Use at own risk!
> 
> Fixes: 93681cd7d94f ("r8169: enable HW csum and TSO")
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

It's unfortunate we have to do this, but better safe than sorry.

Applied and queued up for -stable, and thanks for the backport.