ACK / APPLIED[B]: [SRU] [X/A/B] [PATCH 0/1] Fix Packet Corruption for Ethernet on Dell TB Dock

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Tue Jan 23 16:48:45 UTC 2018


On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 02:23:31PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> [Impact]
> Realtek 8153 ethernet in Dell TB dock corrupts packets.
> 
> [Fix]
> Currently we concluded that the xHC on Dell TB dock doesn't have enough
> buffer. Right now we workaround the issue by turning RX aggregation off
> on Realtek 8152. The real fix will come from ASMedia eventually.
> 
> [Test Case]
> Use Gigabits ethernet with RX csum offloading. Users confirmed issue is
> gone now.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> Low. Confirmed with Dell and Realtek the bcdDevice and iSerialNumber is
> unique to Dell TB16.

Clean cherry pick, looks reasonable. Backport to xenial just looks like
trivial conflict resolution. For X/A:

Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>

Applied to bionic/master-next, thanks!




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