Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: Allow the driver to be used on PA RISC C8000 workstation

[Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>]

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Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Am Freitag, 18. März 2011, 17:39:57 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
> > Am Mittwoch, 2. März 2011, 21:19:24 schrieb Jesse Brandeburg:
> > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Guy Martin <gmsoft@tuxicoman.be> wrote:
> > > > Hi Jeff,
> > > > 
> > > > Any luck getting this into mainline ?
> > > 
> > > Hi Guy, sorry for the delay,
> > > We haven't been able to get our contacts in HP to give us a decent
> > > response so far, we are following up with them to see whats up.  We
> > > have not lost the patch and are still tracking it internally.
> > > 
> > > Give us a couple more weeks if that is okay and we should be able to
> > > settle this by then.
> > 
> > I wonder what exactly you are waiting for? This is a sanity check that
> > we
> > disable, so no working systems could get broken by this. And every
> > single
> > C8000 seems to be affected by this and is working fine with that patch.
> > So maybe people at HP might have a clue _why_ this is screwed, but
> > until then I don't see any point in waiting.
> > 
> > So please just add my tested-by and push this upstream soon. Since this
> > is basically a hardware quirk I would like to get this into stable also
> > so we may run vanilla 2.6.38.1 or something like that on C8000.
> > 
> > Tested-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
> 
> For the netdev folks: it's this patch we are talking about
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-parisc/msg03091.html
> 
> I would love to see that someone finally picks this up and pushes this
> upstream, CC stable. This is absolutely annoying as it breaks every time
> anyone touches the kernel on one of this machines.
> 
> Jeff, David, James: can you please make a decision of who takes this and
> then just do it?

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