ACK: [Precise SRU] [PATCH 0/2] LP#1102209 -- pull TG3 oops fixes

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Mon Jan 21 11:19:40 UTC 2013


On 01/21/2013 10:22 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Machines with TG3 cards are dropping off the network with high traffic
> levels.  Pull back two fixes for the tg3 driver to fix this issue.
> These have been tested on affected machines (see bug for details).
> The same fixes are already in Quantal and Raring.
>
> Proposing for precise.
>
> -apw
>
> Matt Carlson (2):
>    tg3: Scale back code that modifies MRRS
>    tg3: Recode PCI MRRS adjustment as a PCI quirk
>
>   drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 23 +++++------------------
>   drivers/pci/quirks.c                | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>   include/linux/pci_ids.h             |  1 +
>   3 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
Second patch does not seem to be vital for the fix but given it is a 
cherry-pick, makes things a bit cleaner and is the thing that was tested, both 
seem reasonable.





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