Re: tg3 update for Debian 6.0 'squeeze'

["Matt Carlson" <mcarlson@broadcom.com>]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:56:42PM -0700, Matt Carlson wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 08:13:55PM -0700, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 22:06 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > The Debian kernel team regularly backports driver updates to the Linux
> > > kernel in stable releases to add support for new hardware.  In the
> > > current stable release, the Linux kernel is based on longterm series
> > > 2.6.32.y.
> > > 
> > > We generally prefer to cherry-pick bug fixes and new hardware support,
> > > but there are so many interrelated changes to tg3 since 2.6.32 that
> > > this seems to be impossible.  So I've prepared a backport of tg3 from
> > > Linux 2.6.38, which is available in the git branch:
> > > 
> > >     git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/debian-linux.git netdev-test
> > > 
> > > The kernel configuration files we use are at
> > > <http://kernel.alioth.debian.org/config/2.6.32-33/> (note, this site
> > > will be unavailable for the next few hours).
> > > 
> > > We would appreciate any help Broadcom can provide in testing this, and
> > > any advice on changes that should be added or reverted.
> > 
> > Full source and binary packages containing these and other backported
> > drivers can now be found at:
> > 
> >     http://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/
> > 
> > I have not yet received any testing feedback, and without that we will
> > have to defer any updates to Debian 6.0.3 (about another 3 months away).
> > 
> > Ben.
> 
> Hi Ben.  I'm going over the changes right now, and it looks like there
> are a lot of critical fixes that are missing.  Standby and I'll try to
> generate a list of patches to include.

Oh.  Never mind.  I didn't realize 57765 and later devices are not
enabled.  Here are a list of patches you might want to apply that affect
the rest of the devices:


commit fe234f0e5cbb880792d2d1ac0743cf8c07e9dde3
	tg3: Fix tg3_poll_controller() passing wrong pointer to tg3_interrupt()
commit 28b041139e344ecd0f144d6205b004ae354cfa1e
	net: preserve ifreq parameter when calling generic phy_mii_ioctl().

commit 2ffcc981d823a0518c627ca22d51ef72d0b7ca9a
	tg3: Set tx bug flags for more devices
commit 34eea5ac214353ccd93ef7dd8dbd10aed87f5f46
	tg3: Only allow phy ioctls while netif_running
commit 01c3a3920f9f78866420b2004602944fca45083a
	tg3: Fix NVRAM selftest
commit aba49f2421d5287692aee961ab4ce2981fdf4939
	tg3: Disable MAC loopback test for CPMU devices
commit 49692ca1e686970bac5726c3fd925427bb3ae89d
	tg3: Fix loopback tests