From: Doug Berger <open...@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:04:10 -0700
> This commit set is the result of an investigation into an issue that > occurred when bringing the interface up and down repeatedly with an > external 100BASE-T PHY. In some cases the MAC would experience mass > receive packet duplication that could in rare cases lead to a stall > from overflow. The fix for this is contained in the third commit. > > The first 3 commits represent bug fixes that should be applied to the > net repository and are candidates for backporting to stable releases. > The remaining commits are enhancements which is why the set is being > submitted to net-next but they are implemented on top of the fixes. > > The first fix is provided as justification for why the set isn't > split between a net submission and a net-next submission. Series applied. Thanks for fixing up the merge error, I really appreciate that!
