> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 01:39:26PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 09:15:22PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:54:45 -0700
> > > Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let
> > > > us know.
> > > >
> > > > ------------------
> > > >
> > > > From: Matt Carlson <mcarlson@broadcom.com>
> > > >
> > > > This is a resubmit backport of commit
> > > > 92c6b8d16a36df3f28b2537bed2a56491fb08f11 to kernel version 2.6.32.
> > > > The gentoo bug report can be found at
> > > >
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301091. Thanks to Matt
> > > > Carlson for his assistance and working me to fix a regression caused
> > > > by the initial patch. The original description is as follows:
> > > >
> > >
> > > I think these two patches should be used instead, as they fix the
> > > bug without needing backports and keep the driver closer to upstream:
> > >
> > > 0e1406dd404ce55dbe8d68b4b5e2aed7e5c75fdb
> > > "tg3: Assign flags to fixes in start_xmit_dma_bug"
> > >
> > > 92c6b8d16a36df3f28b2537bed2a56491fb08f11
> > > "tg3: Fix 5906 transmit hangs"
> >
> > I don't know, I'll defer to Matt here, this patch has gone in and out of
> > the stable queue for a while now as he and some users have tested and
> > had problems lots of times...
> >
> > Matt?
>
> I'm O.K. with either path. I supported Mike's patch because it was
> minimal. (All the bugs should be shaken out by now.) If that isn't a
> goal, then I guess I'd rather rubber stamp my own implementation.
