[Raring][SRU][pull-request] patches to update be2net driver

[Bandi,Sarveshwar]

Sorry about the slightly delayed response. Needed to get some clarification internally. 

-	Our hardware could get to customers sometime in next couple of months. Even adding for delays they might want to try it before 13.10 happens.
-	We have standard set of test cases that we execute before we submit the patches against any kernel. The test cases vary from sanity to some level of regression on all features from basic ping tests, vlan configurations, jumbo to sriov  (and more).

Thanks,
Sarvesh

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Gardner [mailto:tim.gardner at canonical.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 7:36 PM
To: Jesse Sung
Cc: kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com; Bandi,Sarveshwar; YK
Subject: Re: [Raring][SRU][pull-request] patches to update be2net driver

On 05/22/2013 01:46 AM, Jesse Sung wrote:
> BugLink: https://launchpad.net/bugs/1180217
> 
> These are patches to update be2net driver in Ubuntu 13.04.
> 
> All of the changes are accepted by upstream already, but three of them 
> only include be2net related part in upstream's changes:
> 376057a050d7ebb0ecc5c0be3846c0f2737dedc9
> 31cadef1e88d7203c36c1353449f67a0ea1aa16c
> fe15de1c1385db94ad6803a63b56c63f61f0feff
> 
> 
> The following changes since commit 26fe1fe3382caad4403d5c29268c11d6409237ae:
> 
>   UBUNTU: Ubuntu-3.8.0-22.33 (2013-05-15 14:08:51 -0500)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/jesse/ubuntu-raring-lp1180217.git master
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 2e946546018867bcd1635363b581a5f06f0f3885:
> 
>   be2net: Fix to fail probe if MSI-X enable fails for a VF (2013-05-21
> 17:39:44 +0800)
> 

So, this patch set brings the be2net driver mostly up to v3.10-rc1 (ignoring some VLAN net changes). The partial backports you've mentioned above are unnecessary. Otherwise, everything else appears to be clean cherry picks and isolated to the benet driver.

What regression testing has been done using this patch set on the Raring kernel ? When is the new hardware due to be released ? Is there a reason that you can't wait for the 13.10 HWE kernel ?

rtg
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