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

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 02:01:33PM +1100, Nathan Williams wrote:
> 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?

I am queuing this commit to the 3.5 kernel as well, and I believe it
could also be added to the 3.4 kernel (Cc'ing Greg).

Cheers,
--
Luis
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