From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: odd RTL8139 quirk.
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:33:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4817A21E.2090906@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080429222804.GE2859@redhat.com>
Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 06:19:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Dave Jones wrote:
> > >>From a quick eyeball, that would seem that it still requires a choice
> > > to be made whether or not to enable CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO
> > > What I had in mind was to make that whole USE_IO_OPS ifdef
> > > (and related bits) if (modparm==.. instead of #ifdefs.
> >
> >
> > The patch is the requisite groundwork to add such a module param...
> > iomap support is required to enable runtime rather than compile-time
> > MMIO/PIO switching.
> >
> > e100 does this with the 'use_io' module param.
>
> Ah, in which case, I endorse this proposal heartily :)
Is that endorsement perchance accompanied by the time to resurrect the
patch? :)
Also, specifically with your hardware, one would hope we could figure
out some automatic way for the driver to detect the hardware and
configure it accordingly.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 17:14 odd RTL8139 quirk Dave Jones
2008-04-29 19:37 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-29 19:47 ` Dave Jones
2008-04-29 21:56 ` Dave Jones
2008-04-29 22:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-29 22:10 ` Dave Jones
2008-04-29 22:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-29 22:28 ` Dave Jones
2008-04-29 22:33 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-04-29 22:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-30 11:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-04-30 15:19 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-05-29 15:06 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-29 15:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] 8139too: Make PIO/MMIO a modparam Dave Jones
2008-05-29 18:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-29 18:41 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-29 19:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-15 18:40 ` Dave Jones
2008-07-15 22:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-15 22:36 ` Dave Jones
2008-07-15 22:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-15 23:14 ` Dave Jones
2008-07-15 23:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-15 23:40 ` Dave Jones
2008-07-16 10:03 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-07-15 22:54 ` Dave Jones
2008-07-15 23:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-15 23:15 ` Dave Jones
2008-05-29 15:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] 8139too: Make the OQO2 automatically use PIO mode Dave Jones
2008-05-29 18:21 ` Jeff Garzik
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