From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] 2.6.5-rc2-mm5 - r8169 queue
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:14:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040329211441.B4744@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4068656D.2080103@pobox.com>; from jgarzik@pobox.com on Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 01:05:33PM -0500
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> :
[...]
> I am pondering taking your latest version of r8169, and moving the
> phy-related code from there to 8139cp.c. Then just add
> MODULE_ALIAS("r8169");
> and deleting r8169.c.
>
> The rationale is, 8169 is _exactly_ the same as 8139C+, except the phy
> code and one or two bits in the chip registers. I would rather have
> just one codebase, supporting one MAC (i.e. the RX/TX part) and multiple
> phys.
It seems appealing. Do you have a specific schedule in mind ?
--
Ueimor
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-29 19:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-29 17:36 [patch 0/4] 2.6.5-rc2-mm5 - r8169 queue Francois Romieu
2004-03-29 12:40 ` Andi Kleen
2004-03-29 20:35 ` Francois Romieu
2004-04-02 23:00 ` [patch] 2.6.5-rc2 - r8169 DAC Francois Romieu
2004-04-03 2:08 ` Srihari Vijayaraghavan
2004-04-03 8:19 ` Francois Romieu
2004-03-29 17:37 ` [patch 1/4] 2.6.5-rc2-mm5 - r8169 queue Francois Romieu
2004-03-29 17:37 ` [patch 2/4] " Francois Romieu
2004-03-29 17:38 ` [patch 3/4] " Francois Romieu
2004-03-29 17:39 ` [patch 4/4] " Francois Romieu
[not found] ` <4068656D.2080103@pobox.com>
2004-03-29 19:14 ` Francois Romieu [this message]
2004-03-30 15:37 ` [patch 0/4] " Jeff Garzik
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