From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michael Schmitz <schmitz@zirkon.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
"David D. Kilzer" <ddkilzer@kilzer.net>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix byte-swapped ethernet addr for Asante Fast 10/100 PCI Adapter
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:48:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40132070.4080704@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0312231500350.1139@waterleaf.sonytel.be>
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, Michael Schmitz wrote:
>>I'm not sure - the card having an OF driver might mean it's a Mac card,
>>needing byte swapping, whereas a card with no OF driver would be a PC
>>card, needing no byte swap. Or vice versa. Asante probably never built PC
>>specific ethernet cards so the PCI vendor/device property could be used
>>instead of OF data. OF data is just easier to get at :-)
>
>
> Really? I'd say it's easier to look at the struct pci_dev the Tulip driver
> already looks at. Besides, someone may want to try that card in a non-PowerMac,
> while still having the correct MAC address.
Agreed.
Jeff
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-25 1:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-07 6:21 [PATCH] Fix byte-swapped ethernet addr for Asante Fast 10/100 PCI Adapter David D. Kilzer
2003-12-22 14:27 ` Michael Schmitz
2003-12-23 0:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-23 13:15 ` David D. Kilzer
2003-12-23 13:26 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-23 13:30 ` Michael Schmitz
2003-12-23 14:01 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-12-23 14:32 ` Michael Schmitz
2003-12-23 15:06 ` David D. Kilzer
2004-01-25 1:48 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-01-25 1:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-02 5:49 ` David D. Kilzer
2004-02-05 14:46 ` David D. Kilzer
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