[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "r8169: enforce RX_MULTI_EN for the 8168f." has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    r8169: enforce RX_MULTI_EN for the 8168f.

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.12.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2013 01:15:35 +0200
Subject: r8169: enforce RX_MULTI_EN for the 8168f.
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[ Upstream commit 3ced8c955e74d319f3e3997f7169c79d524dfd06 ]

Same narrative as eb2dc35d99028b698cdedba4f5522bc43e576bd2 ("r8169: RxConfig
hack for the 8168evl.") regarding AMD IOMMU errors.

RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_36 - 8168f as well - has not been reported to behave the
same.

Tested-by: David R <david at unsolicited.net>
Tested-by: Frédéric Leroy <fredo at starox.org>
Cc: Hayes Wang <hayeswang at realtek.com>
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu at fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
index 4fa28fe..996318b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
@@ -4148,6 +4148,7 @@ static void rtl_init_rxcfg(struct rtl8169_private *tp)
 	case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_23:
 	case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_24:
 	case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_34:
+	case RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_35:
 		RTL_W32(RxConfig, RX128_INT_EN | RX_MULTI_EN | RX_DMA_BURST);
 		break;
 	default:
--
1.8.1.2