Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Nov 2007 08:27:25 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [patch 08/16] skge: fix ram buffer size calculation |
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Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Greg KH wrote: > >> -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. >> >> ------------------ >> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> >> >> patch 7fb7ac241162dc51ec0f7644d4a97b2855213c32 in mainline. >> >> This fixes problems with transmit hangs on older fiber based SysKonnect boards. >> >> Adjust ram buffer sizing calculation to make it correct on all boards >> and make it like the code in sky2 driver. >> > > This one is getting reverted in mainline in about five minutes (unless I > find an email from Stephen to address the reported regression - I haven't > gone through all my emails yet), so I don't think it should make it into > stable. > > Linus > I can't reproduce the users problem with the hardware I have. And without the patch the dual port board doesn't work. So it is a question of regression, versus fixing pre-existing bugs. I am okay with reverting the patch, as a temporary state, but concerned with how to make progress in fixing this. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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