Re: [stable] [patch 00/16] 2.6.23-stable review, network driverchanges

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Nov 15 2007 - 13:40:35 EST


On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 02:24:48PM +0200, Heikki Orsila wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:39:21PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.23.X release.
> > There are 16 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to
> > this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let
> > us know.
> > ...
> > drivers/net/skge.c | 141 +++++++++++++++++----------------
> > drivers/net/skge.h | 6 -
>
> I found a regression when I applied drivers/net/skge.[ch] patches on top
> of 2.6.23.1 at stable tree (4367388f04eea72e78347dc9b299698bf4275f92).
> It hangs the network on high speed transfers.
>
> This the same regression that happened for 2.6.24-rc*:
>
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9321
>
> The driver in 2.6.23.1 works for me. Afaik, Stephen Hemminger is working
> on it.

Thanks, I've removed the offending patch, as has Linus from his tree.

greg k-h
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