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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] r8152: disable RX aggregation on Dell TB16 dock
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From: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:46:27 +0800

> r8153 on Dell TB15/16 dock corrupts rx packets.
>
> This change is suggested by Realtek. They guess that the XHCI controller
> doesn't have enough buffer, and their guesswork is correct, once the RX
> aggregation gets disabled, the issue is gone.
>
> ASMedia is currently working on a real sulotion for this issue.
>
> Dell and ODM confirm the bcdDevice and iSerialNumber is unique for TB16.
>
> Note that TB15 has different bcdDevice and iSerialNumber, which are not
> unique values. If you still have TB15, please contact Dell to replace it
> with TB16.
>
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1729674
> Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
> ---
> v2:
> - Disable RX aggregation instead of disable RX checksum
> - Use bcdDevice and iSerialNumber to uniquely identify Dell TB16

Ok, since this is very restricted it's an acceptable way to deal with
this problem.

Applied, thanks.

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