Subject: Re: [PATCH] tc35815: Fix an usage of streaming DMA API.

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:04:18 -0700

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 01:02:20 +0900 (JST)
Atsushi Nemoto <[email-masked]> wrote:

> The tc35815 driver lacks a call to pci_dma_sync_single_for_device() on
> receiving.  Recent fix of MIPS dma_sync_single_for_cpu() reveal this
> bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <[email-masked]>
> ---
> This patch can be applied to netdev-2.6 tree or 2.6.21-rc3-mm2.
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/tc35815.c b/drivers/net/tc35815.c
> index ec888db..eed78b5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/tc35815.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/tc35815.c
> @@ -58,12 +58,13 @@
>   *	1.34	Fix netpoll locking.  "BH rule" for NAPI is not enough with
>   *		netpoll, hard_start_xmit might be called from irq context.
>   *		PM support.
> + *	1.35	Fix an usage of streaming DMA API.
>   */

Please don't use comments as changelog anymore. It gets out of date.
The use of change control systems has made this practice obsolete.

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Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>