Re: [RESEND][PATCH net-drivers-2.6 0/16] e1000: driver update

Re: [RESEND][PATCH net-drivers-2.6 0/16] e1000: driver update

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:38:17PM -0700, Malli Chilakala wrote:

> 13. 82573 specific code & packet split code

Patch 13 seems to be missing...? (2.4 version as well)

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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com

Re: [RESEND][PATCH net-drivers-2.6 0/16] e1000: driver update

[John W. Linville]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:38:17PM -0700, Malli Chilakala wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Mallikarjuna R Chilakala <mallikarjuna.chilakala@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>
> 
> 1. Added enhanced functionality to the loopback diags to wrap the descriptor rings.
> 2. Fix msec-delay definition in e1000_osdep.h to use msleep 
> 3. MSI support for PCI-e adapters
> 4. Enable polling before enabling interrupts -- avoids (in NAPI mode) entering the ISR and returning without doing any work because polling is not enabled. [romieu@fr.zoriel.com]
> 5. Fix kernel panic with 82541 LOM when using a 100M cable
> 6. Delay clean-up of last Tx packet to fix pre-mature writeback issue of Tx descriptors only when TSO is enabled
> 7. Dump information on Tx ring when 'NETDEV: Watchdog' condition is reached
> 8. Fix computation of netdev stats from controller stats counters
> 9. e1000 stops working after resume, call pci_enable_device after pci_restore_state - Modified Andrew Morton's patch
> 10. Implement 82546 errata 10 --  first Tx descriptor cannot have more than 2015 byte of data in it or it could hang the transmitter.
> 11. Removed redundant statement in e1000_clean_tx_irq
> 12. Modified e1000_clean:: exit poll if no Tx and work_done == 0
> 13. 82573 specific code & packet split code
> 14. Fix Packet Buffer Allocation logic for 82547_rev_2 controller
> 15. Adjust flow control watermarks for Jumbo Frames
> 16. Driver version, white space, comments, device id & other

For Fedora Core 3 users, test kernels w/ these patches applied are available here:

	http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc3/

For RHEL4 users, test kernels w/ these patches applied are available here:

	http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/rhel4/

Please beat the crap out of 'em... :-)

Thanks!

John
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John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com

RE: [RESEND][PATCH net-drivers-2.6 0/16] e1000: driver update

[Chilakala, Mallikarjuna]

Unfortunately, all the patches seem to have been mangled when I had
RESEND them yesterday. Not sure if my mailer did it, but it sure made
them harder to handle.

People monitoring on the netdev list are having problems,

So I'm resending them with proper text server like PINE

Please bare with me
-Malli

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Garzik [mailto:jgarzik@pobox.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 7:40 PM
To: Chilakala, Mallikarjuna
Cc: netdev
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH net-drivers-2.6 0/16] e1000: driver update

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 07:38:17PM -0700, Malli Chilakala wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Mallikarjuna R Chilakala
<mallikarjuna.chilakala@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ganesh Venkatesan <ganesh.venkatesan@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com>

Unless you've changed anything, there's no need to resend these.  I've
got them all in my inbox.  Just plodding very slow ATM as I figure out
how to best represent the 40+ branches of netdev-2.6 inside a git
repository.  :)

	Jeff