From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent•org.uk>
To: Erwan Velu <erwanaliasr1@gmail•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Opportunity to backport pch_gbe patches to stable 3.2.x
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 21:49:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120919204905.GE29217@decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <505A11E2.8000403@gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 08:41:38PM +0200, Erwan Velu wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I'm using on a daily use and in production 3.2.x kernels (.29 currently) on a Kontron Nano-etx board that features the pch_gbe network driver.
>
> I've been experiencing lots of troubles on this kernel series but since I've backported the following commits back to my 3.2.x, it works far better.
>
> So from the history of next the following commits apply perfectly and runs very well.
>
> I do think that other users of pch_gbe will appreciate this.
>
> 1a0bdadb4e36abac63b0a9787f372aac30c11a9e
[...]
This first one is adding support for an extra hardware feature, which
is not suitable material for stable. Please pick out only the
important bug fixes, per Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt.
If you want the driver to be completely backported, look at the
compat-drivers project
<https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Documentation/compat-drivers>
or distribution kernels instead of stable.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
- Albert Camus
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2012-09-19 18:41 Opportunity to backport pch_gbe patches to stable 3.2.x Erwan Velu
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