Bug#789316: [src:linux] alx driver broken for small MTU

[Antonio Russo <antonio.e.russo@gmail.com>]

On 06/20/2015 04:41 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
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> 
> What is this 'newer version'?
> 
>> I think somehow the ALX driver never got mainlined?
> [...]
> 
> It did go into mainline in Linux 3.11.
> 

Yes, you are absolutely correct. That unfortunately means
that the solution is going to be more complicated than I
had hoped:

> There was a regression in 3.19-rc1 as a change in the networking core
> (commit d75b1ade567f, "net: less interrupt masking in NAPI") uncovered a
> longstanding bug in alx, but this was supposed to be fixed already in
> 3.19-rc3 (commit 7a05dc64e2e4, "alx: fix alx_poll()").  Maybe that fix
> isn't complete?
> 
> Ben.

It looks like we're waiting on upstream, then. Let me know
if there is anything I can do to help.

Thanks,
Antonio