[Lucid] [SRU] [PATCH 0/2] correct fix for performance issue of fec driver for fsl-imx51

[Stefan Bader]

On 07/13/2010 05:20 PM, Bryan Wu wrote:
> SRU Justification:
> 
> Impact: After introducing PHYLIB supporting to FEC driver, we faced a
> performance drop. I provided a patch to fix that, but upstream refuse the
> solution.
> 
> Fix: Baruch provided a new patch to fix this issue via using interrupt for
> MDIO completion. This patch was merged into linux-2.6-net upstream tree. It
> will be available in mainline soon.
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546649
> 
> Baruch Siach (1):
>   fec: use interrupt for MDIO completion indication
> 
> Bryan Wu (1):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: revert commit 41e74a1f7f90b0c092e9e153f7d8b685af2a980e
> 
>  drivers/net/fec.c |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
>  1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)
> 
> 
Btw, I think there is a similar patch in Karmic. Should there be the same change
there as well?

-Stefan