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From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
To: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] e100: enable transmit time stamping.
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:34:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1333532088.3046.22.camel@jtkirshe-mobl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120404093011.GA4292@netboy.at.omicron.at>

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On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 11:30 +0200, Richard Cochran wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 02:04:43AM -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > 
> > I had this patch in my queue, but during testing we found some serious
> > issues with some adapters.  With every 82559 based adapter Aaron tried
> > the system would panic on driver load.  This included at least one
> > sampling of D101S and D101M.  Every other e100 chipset Aaron tried
> > (82557, 82558, 82550) appeared to work fine.
> > 
> > So I am dropping this patch as is due to the kernel panics.
> 
> Okay, fine. That driver is strangely written, with weird callbacks and
> passing function pointers around.
> 
> Taking a second look, I think I might have found the problem. The
> drivers casts a firmware pointer onto a skb, and my patch then tries
> to timestamp the firmware blob.
> 
> If I rework this, are you willing to give it another try?
> 
> Thanks,
> Richard

Yeah, we appreciate the work your doing.  Just send me an updated patch
and I will add it to my queue.

That was our thoughts as well regarding the firmware blobs.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-04  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-10 17:29 [PATCH net-next 0/2] Expand Tx timestamping coverage by two drivers Richard Cochran
2012-03-10 17:29 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] r8169: enable transmit time stamping Richard Cochran
2012-03-10 22:21   ` Francois Romieu
2012-03-11 22:43     ` David Miller
2012-03-10 17:29 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] e100: " Richard Cochran
2012-03-11  9:56   ` Jeff Kirsher
2012-04-04  9:04   ` Jeff Kirsher
2012-04-04  9:30     ` Richard Cochran
2012-04-04  9:34       ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
2012-04-07 12:49         ` [PATCH V2 net-next 0/1] e100: support Tx timestamping Richard Cochran
2012-04-07 12:49           ` [PATCH V2 net-next 1/1] e100: enable transmit time stamping Richard Cochran
2012-04-08  6:34             ` Jeff Kirsher

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