From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 21:30:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 21:30:48 -0400 Received: from ip68-3-14-32.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.3.14.32]:7596 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 21:30:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3D28EBA6.8040400@candelatech.com> Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 18:32:22 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Martin Josefsson CC: Jason Lunz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: NAPI patch against 2.4.18 References: <3D287DA4.5090904@candelatech.com> <20020707191517.GA14331@orr.falooley.org> <1026088234.1283.246.camel@tux> 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 Martin Josefsson wrote: > On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 21:15, Jason Lunz wrote: > >>greearb@candelatech.com said: >> >>>Does anyone have a working NAPI kernel and tulip driver patch against >>>2.4.18 or so? I will be happy to test this if so. >> >>Yes, I backported the core last week to 2.4.19-rc1 from 2.5.24, but the >>patch ought to apply to 2.4.18 with only offset mismatches. I kept a lot >>of style cleanups in the patch, but they should be easy to remove if >>they cause problems. I'll be backporting the various napified drivers to >>2.4 this week. >> >>http://orr.falooley.org/pub/linux/net/ > > > Why not use the original patch? > > ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/NAPI/ The only patches I found there were about 6 months old, and the tulip patch seems to be based on the tulip driver in 2.4.2. The tulip driver did not reach stability in the 2.4 series untill about 2.4.9, when it finally started auto-negotiating correctly. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear