Lucid pull request for sfc (Re: Lucid request update: sfc driver)

[Tim Gardner]

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 21:26 +0000, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>> On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 14:27 +0000, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>>> Tim Gardner wrote:
>>>>> Ben Hutchings wrote:
>>>>>> Please update the sfc driver to the version in 2.6.33-rc3.  This adds
>>>>>> support for the SFC9000 family of 10G Ethernet adapters.  Note that
>>>>>> there are a very large number of changes in the driver after 2.6.32;
>>>>>> most of these were refactoring required in preparation for the addition
>>>>>> of new hardware support.
>>> [...]
>>>>> Have a look at 'git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-lucid sfc' and see if 
>>>>> you think I've done it right.
>>>>>
>>>>> I think the 3 core networking patches are benign.
>>>>>
>>>>> rtg
>>>> That would be 'git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/ubuntu-lucid.git sfc'
>>> That looks right to me, and passes some basic testing.  Thanks a lot!
>>>
>>> There are a couple more bug fixes on the way; shall I ping you when they
>>> appear in an rc?
>>>
>> Yes - I would not normally notice upstream sfc updates (unless they 
>> trickled down via stable).
> 
> Please cherry-pick these bug fixes included in 2.6.33-rc{5,6}:
> 
> 55029c1d65158aea9672c5dfadb43a57f23e3100 sfc: Fix polling for slow MCDI operations
> f3766c26a5d00189e5c0965c66f01956d15a92d6 sfc: Fix conditions for MDIO self-test
> 357d46a17e54c9a87e0e6ef3930ff4ab2d232b81 sfc: QT202x: Remove unreliable MMD check at initialisation
> 8704a2c8e9db24157a7b08d1678bf840f2318779 sfc: Add workspace for GMAC bug workaround to MCDI MAC_STATS buffer
> 5a27e86babe79cf5f575394bb1055448458df6c7 sfc: Use fixed-size buffers for MCDI NVRAM requests
> 
> Ben.
> 

See attached.
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
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