Re: [RFT] e100 driver on ARM

From: Kok, Auke
Date: Thu Apr 26 2007 - 12:21:00 EST


Jeff Garzik wrote:
Kok, Auke wrote:
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.

I think we should then just bite the bullet and move it over to #upstream for 2.6.22, that gives us another full release cycle to monitor it.

I'll post 2 patches in a second. the first is for upstream and allows the driver to run with an invalid mac address in case the user overrides the eeprom checksum (in which case the mac address could likely be wrong). The second one is the I/O mode patch and for Andrew (MM), allthough the I/O mode is disabled by default, so it should be safe to put in upstream as well, but I leave that up to you to decide.

Auke
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