From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Grant Grundler" <iod00d@hp.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Peter Chubb" <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: TG3 fix for slow switches (Was: TG3 driver failure on HP 16-way)
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 11:22:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117563772.4310.30.camel@rh4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050531190345.GH20793@esmail.cup.hp.com>
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 12:03 -0700, Grant Grundler wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 10:42:45AM -0700, Michael Chan wrote:
> > No, I mean I will create a patch that will work for older devices that
> > do not have the valid LED bits in eeprom.
>
> Ah ok. How can you know if the LED bits are valid (or not)?
>
There are version numbers and signatures that we may be able to use. I
am working with the firmware engineer to see if we can find a way.
> I consider this a bug in the eeprom and have set things in motion
> (in HP) to correct it since the card is not an obsolete product.
>
> Otherwise, the patch I submitted should be sufficient.
>
I am hoping to have a patch that will work for all older devices instead
of just checking for subvendor IDs, if possible. If not, we'll go with
your patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-31 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-23 0:02 TG3 fix for slow switches (Was: TG3 driver failure on HP 16-way) Michael Chan
2004-12-23 4:31 ` David S. Miller
2005-05-31 15:38 ` Grant Grundler
2005-05-31 17:22 ` Michael Chan
2005-05-31 18:36 ` Grant Grundler
2005-05-31 17:42 ` Michael Chan
2005-05-31 19:03 ` Grant Grundler
2005-05-31 18:22 ` Michael Chan [this message]
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2004-12-23 8:14 Michael Chan
2004-12-21 0:12 Peter Chubb
2004-12-21 0:15 ` David S. Miller
2004-12-21 1:11 ` Peter Chubb
2004-12-21 6:19 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-06 23:19 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-07 0:17 ` Darren Williams
2005-01-07 3:48 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-07 5:30 ` Darren Williams
2005-01-07 5:28 ` David S. Miller
2005-01-07 9:25 ` Darren Williams
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