From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
Guy Martin <gmsoft@tuxicoman.be>,
Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>,
gospo@redhat.com, Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>,
stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [net v2] e1000: Fix driver to be used on PA RISC C8000 workstations
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 08:37:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110831153713.GC8618@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1314751777-13772-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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 <gmsoft@tuxicoman.be>
> CC: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
> CC: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.kerlin.mff.cuni.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
> ---
<formletter>
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.
</formletter>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-31 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-31 0:49 [net v2] e1000: Fix driver to be used on PA RISC C8000 workstations Jeff Kirsher
2011-08-31 0:59 ` David Miller
2011-08-31 15:37 ` Greg KH [this message]
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