[PATCH 0/2] [Karmic/Lucid] netdev/fec: bug fixing (v2)

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Thu Apr 8 08:46:33 UTC 2010


Bryan Wu wrote:
> v2: please ignore the v1 patchset, since testers found v1 patches failed to
>     pass their validation
>   - rework on the second patch to fix performance regression

Ignoring a patchset we (Andy and me) already applied is a hard to follow advice.
 Can these two patches be applied on top of the current repo which includes v1?

Stefan
> The first patch is fixing a bug found by upstream review.
> 
> The 2nd one is a new fixing to the performance impact after introducing phylib
> to fec.c driver. The busy wait in mdio poll opertaion will drop transfer speed.
> 
> These 2 patches can be cleanly applied to both Karmic and Lucid fsl-imx51 branch.
> And Both of them were tested and passed the validation. Please find the testing
> report here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-fsl-imx51/+bug/546649
> 
> Please consider pull it from:
> 	git://kernel.ubuntu.com/roc/ubuntu-lucid fec
> 
> Bryan Wu (2):
>   netdev/fec: fix phy_speed caculating
>   netdev/fec: fix performance impact from mdio poll operation
> 
>  drivers/net/fec.c |   54 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
>  1 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> 
> 





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