From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267776AbUG3SM3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:12:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267786AbUG3SM2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:12:28 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:4061 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267776AbUG3SKv (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:10:51 -0400 Message-ID: <410A8F17.8070401@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:10:31 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Roger Luethi CC: Marcelo Tosatti , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: List of pending v2.4 kernel bugs References: <20040720142640.GB2348@dmt.cyclades> <20040721112336.GA9537@k3.hellgate.ch> <20040730155613.GD2748@logos.cnet> <410A8077.7020308@pobox.com> <20040730172939.GA24235@k3.hellgate.ch> In-Reply-To: <20040730172939.GA24235@k3.hellgate.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Roger Luethi wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 13:08:07 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > As I have pointed out before, I verified for Linux 2.6 that without > the patch, multicasting worked on x86 but not on ppc, and that with > the patch multicasting did work on both platforms. If in 2.4 you prefer > stability over fixes for bugs nobody complained about that's fine by > me, though. > I am more concerned with the remaining drivers that at first glance > looked like they had the same problem (atp, winbond, tulip_core) in > 2.6. Did anyone ever test these, or try the patches I posted? The only > feedback I remember was on typhoon, which looked okay to me and indeed > turned out to work. Those are precisely the changes I am talking about. I have no idea if anybody has verified them, and thus, I don't want to push to mainline until someone does. Since you verified the via-rhine change, it is OK to merge. Jeff