Subject: Re: net/usb/ax88179_178a driver broken in linux-3.12

From: Mark Lord <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 17:52:38 -0500

On 13-11-18 08:32 AM, David Laight wrote:
>> From: David Laight
>>> On 13-11-17 01:56 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
>>>> On 13-11-17 01:35 PM, Mark Lord wrote:
>>>>> The USB3 network adapter locks up consistently for me here in 3.12,
>>>>> but was working without issues in 3.11.x
>>
>> The xhci driver is well broken in 3.12.
> 
> To correct myself...
> 
> The xhci driver has never correctly support scatter-gather requests.
> In 3.12 code was added to usbnet to generate SG transmits, and to the
> ax88179_178a driver to use them.
> TCP segmentation offload was then enabled - with does generate
> SG transfers.
> 
> SG transfers for 'disks' almost certainly work because the
> fragment boundaries are 'adequately aligned'.
> 
> 	David
> 

Well, that's all very nice and whatnot,
except the ax88179_178a driver still does not work in linux-3.12,
whereas it works fine in all earlier kernels.

That's a regression.
And a simple revert (earlier in this thread) fixes it.

So.. let's revert it for now, until a proper xhci compatible patch is produced.
-- 
Mark Lord
Real-Time Remedies Inc.
[email-masked]