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diff --git a/patches/collateral-evolutions/network/0007-pci_dev_dev_flags/INFO b/patches/collateral-evolutions/network/0007-pci_dev_dev_flags/INFO new file mode 100644 index 00000000..fc95b61c --- /dev/null +++ b/patches/collateral-evolutions/network/0007-pci_dev_dev_flags/INFO @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +The struct pci_dev dev_flags member was added as of +v2.6.24 via ba698ad4. This collateral evolution can be +enhanced and backported atomically through these series +of patches. The end goal is to optimize this in SmPL form. + +mcgrof@frijol ~/linux-stable (git::master)$ git describe --contains ba698ad4 +v2.6.24-rc2~28^2~6 + +commit ba698ad4b7e466cbb4a8bde6b9da8080ab06808d +Author: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> +Date: Thu Oct 25 01:16:30 2007 -0700 + + PCI: Add quirk for devices which disable MSI when INTX_DISABLE is set. + + A reasonably common problem with some devices is that they will + disable MSI generation when the INTX_DISABLE bit is set in the + PCI_COMMAND register. + + Quirk this explicitly, guarding the pci_intx() calls in msi.c with + this quirk indication. + + The first entries for this quirk are for 5714 and 5780 Tigon3 chips, + and thus we can remove the workaround code from the tg3.c driver. + + Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> + Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> + Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> + Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> |