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From: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox•com>
To: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB•COM>,
	Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux•intel.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>,
	eric.dumazet@gmail•com, ming.lei@canonical•com,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-usb@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: net/usb/ax88179_178a driver broken in linux-3.12
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 10:05:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <529CA1D2.2070806@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AE90C24D6B3A694183C094C60CF0A2F6026B744E@saturn3.aculab.com>

On 13-12-02 04:30 AM, David Laight wrote:
>> From: Mark Lord
>> Sent: 30 November 2013 02:59
>> To: Sarah Sharp; David Laight
>> Cc: David Miller; eric.dumazet@gmail•com; ming.lei@canonical•com; netdev@vger•kernel.org; linux-
>> usb@vger•kernel.org
>> Subject: Re: net/usb/ax88179_178a driver broken in linux-3.12
>>
>> On 13-11-19 08:44 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
>>> On 13-11-19 05:04 AM, David Laight wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Which changes did you revert?
>>>
>>> Just the bits that changed how the headroom/tailroom sizes
>>> were checked and adjusted.  See attachment for the revert patch
>>> I am using here.  My mailer unfortunately likes to mangle inline patches.
>>>
> ...
>>
>> Two kernels later, and this regression has still not been fixed.
>>
>> A simple revert, folks.
> 
> Reverting the ax88179_178a driver doesn't fix the problem.
> I'm seen tx/rx issues with it on much older kernels that don't
> appear with a current kernel and the fixed xhci code.
> 
> Sarah needs to feed the xhci_ring.c fix through into stable.

Oh, I agree.  But Linus makes a MASSIVE distinction between things
that have always been broken, and REGRESSIONS from the immediately
prior kernel that can be tracked to a single update.

Let's see some action, here folks!
-- 
Mark Lord
Real-Time Remedies Inc.
mlord@pobox•com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-02 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <52890C7E.6000607@pobox.com>
2013-11-17 18:56 ` net/usb/ax88179_178a driver broken in linux-3.12 Mark Lord
2013-11-17 19:04   ` Mark Lord
2013-11-18 10:12     ` David Laight
2013-11-18 13:32       ` David Laight
2013-11-18 22:52         ` Mark Lord
2013-11-19 10:04           ` David Laight
2013-11-19 13:44             ` Mark Lord
2013-11-19 13:56               ` David Laight
2013-11-19 14:02             ` Mark Lord
2013-11-19 14:15               ` Eric Dumazet
2013-11-19 14:24                 ` Mark Lord
2013-11-19 14:43                 ` David Laight
2013-11-19 16:10                   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-11-19 16:26                     ` David Laight
2013-11-19 21:13             ` David Miller
2013-11-20  9:54               ` David Laight
2013-11-20 16:54                 ` Sarah Sharp
2013-11-30  2:58                   ` Mark Lord
     [not found]                     ` <5299546B.2020800-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-02  9:30                       ` David Laight
2013-12-02 15:05                         ` Mark Lord [this message]
     [not found]                           ` <529CA1D2.2070806-e+AXbWqSrlAAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2013-12-02 19:08                             ` Sarah Sharp
2013-12-02 19:11                               ` Mark Lord
2013-12-02 19:18                               ` Greg KH

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