From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, synrg@debian.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] introducing the Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet driver
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:47:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4755D8EA.9060201@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4755D39D.30005@redhat.com>
Chris Snook wrote:
> Hey folks --
>
> I've begun cleaning up the atl2 vendor driver for merging. It's
> very similar to the atl1 driver, and needs a lot of the same work,
> though I have already fixed the 64-bit DMA data corrupter that atl1
> users remember so fondly. Right now this is very raw, and there is a
> large amount of cosmetic work to do to make it more maintainable, but it
> should generally work, at least as well as the vendor driver does.
>
> While this is in pre-submission cleanup mode, the latest standalone
> source tarball and patch (currently against 2.6.23) will be available here:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/csnook/atl2/
>
> If you have atl2 hardware, please give this a spin. I plan to
> submit the driver for merging some time in the next month or so.
> Questions, comments, patches welcome.
Why not update atl1 for this new hardware? Why is a new driver needed?
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-04 22:24 [RFC] introducing the Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet driver Chris Snook
2007-12-04 22:47 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-12-05 2:06 ` Chris Snook
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