On Fri, 2013-04-12 at 23:05 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 22:15 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > Aside from #21-26 in this series, and the deadlock fix required on top > > of #24, there are several more fixes for sfc that I think are suitable > > for 3.6.11.y. > > > > These commits were cherry-picked for 3.4.38 and can also be > > cherry-picked cleanly on top of 3.6.11.1 plus the 7 patches you already > > have: > > > > d5e8cc6c946e sfc: Really disable flow control while flushing > > bfeed902946a sfc: Convert firmware subtypes to native byte order in efx_mcdi_get_board_cfg() > > 9724a8504c87 sfc: Add parentheses around use of bitfield macro arguments > > 0a6e5008a9df sfc: Fix MCDI structure field lookup > > 450783747f42 sfc: Avoid generating over-length MC_CMD_FLUSH_RX_QUEUES request > > 525d9e824018 sfc: Work-around flush timeout when flushes have completed > > ef492f11efed sfc: Correctly initialise reset_method in siena_test_chip() > > ebf98e797b4e sfc: Fix timekeeping in efx_mcdi_poll() > > > > Please let me know whether you're prepared to include these in the > > current update. I can then run some automated tests with your selected > > set of patches applied. > > The test suite found a regression which I'd forgotten about. It > was introduced in 3.6 by commit b7f514af7d6f 'sfc: Fix interface > statistics running backward' and fixed in 3.8 by commit 876be083b669 > 'sfc: Reset driver's MAC stats after MC reboot seen'. > > That latter fix is, again, a clean cherry-pick onto 3.6.y. I don't > think I'm going to be able to re-test with this but it's sufficiently > low-risk that I'd be happy for you to add it anyway. Thanks! I included it, and will run some simple tests. If everything works, I'll just keep it without another spamming of the mailing lists. I wont post till after my 3.6.11.2-rt tests passes. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html