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

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Tue Jan 30 16:23:31 UTC 2018


On 2018-01-22 14:23:31 , 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.
> 
> Kai-Heng Feng (1):
>   r8152: disable RX aggregation on Dell TB16 dock
> 
>  drivers/net/usb/r8152.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
> 

Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>





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