From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Tue, 07 Mar 2006 03:50:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:4833 "EHLO bacchus.dhis.org") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S8133606AbWCGDuI (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Mar 2006 03:50:08 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by bacchus.dhis.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k273wRa8026956; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 03:58:27 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k273wOlc026954; Tue, 7 Mar 2006 03:58:24 GMT Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 03:58:24 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Francois Romieu Cc: Martin Michlmayr , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [PATCH, RESEND] Add MWI workaround for Tulip DC21143 Message-ID: <20060307035824.GA24018@linux-mips.org> References: <20060129230816.GD4094@colonel-panic.org> <20060218220851.GA1601@colonel-panic.org> <20060306225131.GA23327@unjust.cyrius.com> <20060306231530.GB16082@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060306231530.GB16082@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 10742 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 12:15:30AM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote: > [...] > > Does anyone have comments regarding this patch? I received > > confirmation from a number of Debian users that this patch > > significantly improves the lockup situation on Cobalt, so > > it would be nice if it could go in. > > I'll queue it with the pending de2104x fix(es ?) during my next > upkeep. I'm just not convinced of having such a workaround as a build option. The average person building a a kernel will probably not know if the option needs to be enabled or not. Ralf