RE: DPAA Ethernet traffice troubles with Linux kernel

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From: Madalin-cristian Bucur
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 4:25 PM
To: David S . Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
madskateman@gmail.com; 'Madalin-cristian Bucur' [off-list ref];
Andrew Lunn [off-list ref]; Joakim Tjernlund
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Subject: RE: DPAA Ethernet traffice troubles with Linux kernel
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On Behalf Of Madalin-cristian Bucur
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 4:16 PM
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>; Joakim Tjernlund
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Subject: RE: DPAA Ethernet traffice troubles with Linux kernel

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@lunn.ch]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 3:44 PM
To: Joakim Tjernlund <redacted>
Subject: Re: DPAA Ethernet traffice troubles with Linux kernel

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That doesn't work really, having users to hit the bug, debug it, fi=

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it

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and then

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find it fixed already in upstream, then specifically request it to

be

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backported to stable.

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I don't need this fix to be backported, already got it. Someone els=

e

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might though.

The "someone else might though" is a big point of asking for it to
added to stable. The other reason is it means one less patch you need
to maintain in your build.

I've sent that patch [1] for net but I guess the timing was wrong and
it was merged to net-next.

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I would be interested in bug fixes upstream which fixes:

Did you try upstream? Does it give the same errors?

    Andrew

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10146119/

Madalin

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Hi Dave,
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Can you please add the fix [1] to stable?
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Thank you,
Madalin

Sorry,

I've provided the wrong link towards the patch (v1 instead of v3),
here's the correct one:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10151969/

Madalin