Comment 0 for bug 590783

The sfc driver was backported from 2.6.33, and as such requires that stable updates from 2.6.33.y be applied. There are currently 3 patches available from 2.6.33.4 stable:

680e3fe449b3a78a95871bbc02398b2bb1a40174 sfc: Change falcon_probe_board() to fail for unsupported boards
068e5818f0d028cc0469ae7ae33368fd71024886 sfc: Always close net device at the end of a disabling reset
fa8472cab002dbbb70bf2b1c975b56f75e5d88c6 sfc: Wait at most 10ms for the MC to finish reading out MAC statistics