Re: [Request for 3.2.y] 8139cp: re-enable interrupts after tx timeout

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On Thu, 2013-11-21 at 14:18 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Nathan Williams <nathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 14:01:33 +1100
> 
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> > I have a customer who has experienced issues with Debian Wheezy (Kernel
> > 3.2.51) and the 8139cp driver:
> > 
> >     Upgrading to wheezy was even more disastrous with the kernel reporting
> >     "8139cp 0000:00:0a.0: eth0: Transmit timeout".  Once the ethernet
> >     adaptor timed out only a reboot would fix it.
> > 
> > I sent him a module with a patch from the following commit applied:
> > 
> > commit 01ffc0a7f1c1801a2354719dedbc32aff45b987d
> > Author: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Sat Nov 24 12:11:21 2012 +0000
> > 
> >     8139cp: re-enable interrupts after tx timeout
> >     
> >     Recovery doesn't work too well if we leave interrupts disabled...
> >     
> >     Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@xxxxxxxxx>
> >     Acked-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > The customer has now confirmed that his problem has been fixed.
> > Can we please have this commit brought across to 3.2.y?
> 
> No objections from me.

I've added this to the queue.  Thanks, all.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.

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