Opportunity to backport pch_gbe patches to stable 3.2.x
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Hi there,
I'm using on a daily use and in production 3.2.x kernels (.29 currently) on a Kontron Nano-etx board that features the pch_gbe network driver.
I've been experiencing lots of troubles on this kernel series but since I've backported the following commits back to my 3.2.x, it works far better.
So from the history of next the following commits apply perfectly and runs very well.
I do think that other users of pch_gbe will appreciate this.
1a0bdadb4e36abac63b0a9787f372aac30c11a9e5481c8cd83b4cb0f9f0746e1f477ac231e7eedb6eefc48b078e1c74c701e8b44a56717418e9cd2bb93c8acb599b72ca7da42e36d7971a28dce27366532127a0a0a35706c18df11cd7ad69e96214b3c68d89bdff152acc0c1e1c8093832547a553b69b45c62ecc37986414ff98ba863f8f4b8c3fa9c8fb8083ab77bf271e6a41512e366dfa5110edb981ed1d3913f53e4c8a464c46a70898c88f2291ade28c196f2c31662762b9e82b9891d6b385b17f9e5ef0ed2
Cheers,
Erwan
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Hi there,
I'm using on a daily use and in production 3.2.x kernels (.29 currently) on a Kontron Nano-etx board that features the
pch_gbenetwork driver.I've been experiencing lots of troubles on this kernel series but since I've backported the following commits back to my 3.2.x, it works far better.
So from the history of next the following commits apply perfectly and runs very well.
I do think that other users of
pch_gbewill appreciate this.
1a0bdadb4e36abac63b0a9787f372aac30c11a9e
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This first one is adding support for an extra hardware feature, which is not suitable material for stable. Please pick out only the important bug fixes, per Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
If you want the driver to be completely backported, look at the compat-drivers project
<https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Documentation/compat-drivers>
or distribution kernels instead of stable.
Ben.
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