On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 17:41 +0200, Emil Goode wrote:
> The following patches apply to the 3.2.55 stable kernel.
> In combination with the below patch (already added to
> 3.2.56-rc1) they fix bugs related to packet handling for
> devices using the asix module.
>
> commit: eb85569fe2d06c2fbf4de7b66c263ca095b397aa
> ("usbnet: remove generic hard_header_len check")
>
> Some notes about changes in the backports:
>
> Patch 1/3:
> - Resolved a small conflict that happened because the following
> backported commit was added to the 3.2.19 kernel.
>
> commit a466c7f9d6e61fb19c2d49f82007a0700724a1e3
> ("asix: allow full size 8021Q frames to be received")
>
> Patch 2/3:
> - Changes to drivers/net/usb/ax88172a.c was dropped since this
> file is not available in the 3.2.55 kernel.
> - Introduces some static function declarations as the functions
> are not used outside of asix.c (sparse is complaining about it)
Good, that all makes sense.
> - Moves a FLAG_MULTI_PACKET flag to the next line in order to be
> consistent with patch 3/3.
> - Drops a NULL check since kfree has it's own check for this.
I undid this cleanup as it is an unnecessary deviation from the upstream
version.
> These patches have been tested on a ax88772b device.
Thanks, I've queued these all up for 3.2.
Ben.
> Emil Goode (2):
> net: asix: handle packets crossing URB boundaries
> net: asix: add missing flag to struct driver_info
>
> Eric Dumazet (1):
> asix: asix_rx_fixup surgery to reduce skb truesizes
>
> drivers/net/usb/asix.c | 176 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
> 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)
>
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Ben Hutchings
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