Re: [stable] [net v2] e1000: Fix driver to be used on PA RISC C8000 workstations

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 05:49:37PM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:

The checksum field in the EEPROM on HPPA is really not a
checksum but a signature (0x16d6).  So allow 0x16d6 as the
matching checksum on HPPA systems.

This issue is present on longterm/stable kernels, I have
verified that this patch is applicable back to at least
2.6.32.y kernels.

v2- changed ifdef to use CONFIG_PARISC instead of __hppa__

CC: Guy Martin <redacted>
CC: Rolf Eike Beer <redacted>
CC: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <redacted>
Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <redacted>
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This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

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