Re: [RFT] e100 driver on ARM

[Jeff Garzik]

Kok, Auke wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> > > This is all a while ago now, but wasn't the e100 S-bit patch originally
> > > written by Intel people in response to the very same quote by Russell
> > > King that you've quoted above?
> >
> > Correct.
> >
> > I just wanted to make sure it didn't kill any boxes.
>
> Neither did we. On top of that we didn't have the equipment to test on 
> ARM on until recently, and the system that I got recently will not even 
> load the kernel with an e100 NIC in the PCI slot (way way way before 
> e100.ko loads, e1000 works just fine). that doesn't help either.
>
> Meanwhile we've not sat still and jesse wrote a patch to have e100 use 
> IO optionally for plagued platforms which seems to fix some of these 
> issues, and Jeff Kirsher has been actively tracking a e100 IPMI issue on 
> a very specific platform.
>
> Jeff, I think I should just push the IO patch and the sbit code to 
> Andrew and have it sit there. That is a vastly larger test resource than 
> we currently can generate for this. If needed we just let is sit there 
> for a whole release cycle before moving it to #upstream.

The sbit code has been in -mm via netdev-2.6.git#ALL for many months 
now.  I am certainly open to adding any number of "for -mm only" style 
patches that you wish to pass along, for /any/ driver: e100, e1000, ixgb.

	Jeff



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