From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Wed, 23 May 2007 09:44:38 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:40648 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S20021496AbXEWIoh (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 May 2007 09:44:37 +0100 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l4N8iOve005109; Wed, 23 May 2007 09:44:24 +0100 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l4N8iOwZ005108; Wed, 23 May 2007 09:44:24 +0100 Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:44:24 +0100 From: Ralf Baechle To: Andrew Morton , Jeff Garzik , netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: [NET] meth driver renovation Message-ID: <20070523084424.GA5083@linux-mips.org> References: <20070523084330.GA4966@linux-mips.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070523084330.GA4966@linux-mips.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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: 15142 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 Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:43:30AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote: > The meth ethernet driver for the SGI IP32 aka O2 is so far still an old > style driver which does not use the device driver model. This is now > causing issues with some udev based gadgetry in debian-stable. Fixed by > converting the meth driver to a platform device. Since this seems to cause some real world problems I'd like to get this patch into 2.6.22. Ralf