Bug#664461: [squeeze] atl1c: AR8152: "transmit queue 0 timed out" and network is unusable until reset
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 05:28:31AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 02:14 +0000, Huang, Xiong wrote:
> > Hi Jonathan
> >
> > For driver atl1c, we add many patches recently. Please sync with
> > the kernel, the last patch is
> > 80bcb4238dd858d atl1c: remove PHY polling from atl1c_change_mtu
>
> I've attempted to backport these changes to Linux 2.6.32 as used in the
> current Debian stable release. The result can be found at:
>
> git://anonscm.debian.org/kernel/linux-2.6.git squeeze-driver-test
>
> Please can you review the changes and test whether this works properly
> (I have no hardware to test). The major difference I'm concerned about
> is in VLAN handling; I'm not sure that the backported version of the
> driver will configure the MAC properly for VLAN tag removal whenever it
> should.
Ben,
FWIW we already provide daily backports of code through compat-wireless.
compat-wireless will eventually be changed to "compat-drivers" to reflect
that it has drivers backported other than 802.11. We also have stable releases
of the Linux kernel backported for use on older releases.
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable
In the case of trying to merge patches that are "critical" but not yet
even published, upstream or not yet merged somehow, I've also addressed
this by categorizing the patches based on the life cycle the patch is in,
but by still prioritizing upstream.
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Download/stable/#Additional_patches_to_stable_releases
I think you had mentioned to me working together, perhaps its time we review
how we can do that.
Luis
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