[patch] drivers/net/3c59x.c

From: Andrew Morton (andrewm@uow.edu.au)
Date: Mon Apr 24 2000 - 07:56:16 EST

This 3Com driver patch against 2.3.99-pre6-5 is (I hope) ready to roll.

The patch is at
        http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/3c59x-2.3.99-pre6-5-1-patch.gz

The changelog is at
        http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/3c59x-2.3-changelog-22-apr-00.txt

Files affected:

Documentation/Configure.help
     Removed 3c575_cb, augmented 3c59x

Documentation/networking/vortex.txt
     Updated.

drivers/net/3c59x.c
     Merged with 3c575_cb. Merged stuff from ~5 other similar
     drivers. Many other changes.

drivers/net/pcmcia/Config.in
drivers/net/pcmcia/Makefile
drivers/net/pcmcia/3c575_cb.c
     Removed 3c575_cb.c

drivers/pci/pci.ids
     Added 8 new NICs.

$TOPDIR/Makefile
     Changed the modules_install target to create the 3c575_cb.o
     back-compatibility symlink.

     Not very pretty, but Keith Owens is restructuring the modules
     installation infrastructure - suggest we wait and see what
     he comes up with.

** CONFIG_PCMCIA_3C575 should be removed from arch/i38c/defconfig,
   but I don't think that's patchable?

There are still a few niggling issues:

 - 575 Cardbus cards not coming online 100% of the time. Vastly
   improved, but still occasionally fails when the driver is statically
   linked.

 - Hard-to-reproduce reports of NICs going to sleep after 30 minutes
   of inactivity.

 - One user's 905B going off the air under simultaneous heavy n/w
   and video usage (surely related to the console code's extended
   interrupt blockage, but I can't reproduce). 

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