From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1031304AbXDZQJu (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:09:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1031295AbXDZQJu (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:09:50 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:59025 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1031304AbXDZQJt (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:09:49 -0400 Message-ID: <4630CEA9.6050100@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:09:13 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kok, Auke" CC: Andrew Morton , Jesse Brandeburg , Lennert Buytenhek , David Acker , Lennart Sorensen , Netdev List , Linux Kernel , Russell King Subject: Re: [RFT] e100 driver on ARM References: <44FC0261.6010807@garzik.org> <20060904123123.GB1285@xi.wantstofly.org> <460AF480.7050609@intel.com> <460B4BF2.1070803@roinet.com> <20070329141041.GA3510@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <46239138.4040408@roinet.com> <20070417173507.GB5575@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4630AC02.7040706@roinet.com> <20070426135013.GA12154@xi.wantstofly.org> <4630C159.1060707@garzik.org> <4630C7D0.8030901@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <4630C7D0.8030901@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.8 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Kok, Auke wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Lennert Buytenhek wrote: >>> This is all a while ago now, but wasn't the e100 S-bit patch originally >>> written by Intel people in response to the very same quote by Russell >>> King that you've quoted above? >> >> Correct. >> >> I just wanted to make sure it didn't kill any boxes. > > Neither did we. On top of that we didn't have the equipment to test on > ARM on until recently, and the system that I got recently will not even > load the kernel with an e100 NIC in the PCI slot (way way way before > e100.ko loads, e1000 works just fine). that doesn't help either. > > Meanwhile we've not sat still and jesse wrote a patch to have e100 use > IO optionally for plagued platforms which seems to fix some of these > issues, and Jeff Kirsher has been actively tracking a e100 IPMI issue on > a very specific platform. > > Jeff, I think I should just push the IO patch and the sbit code to > Andrew and have it sit there. That is a vastly larger test resource than > we currently can generate for this. If needed we just let is sit there > for a whole release cycle before moving it to #upstream. The sbit code has been in -mm via netdev-2.6.git#ALL for many months now. I am certainly open to adding any number of "for -mm only" style patches that you wish to pass along, for /any/ driver: e100, e1000, ixgb. Jeff