From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John W. Linville" Subject: Re: [patch 2.4.28-pre3] 3c59x: resync with 2.6 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:26:03 -0400 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20041008132603.G14378@tuxdriver.com> References: <20041008121307.C14378@tuxdriver.com> <20041008191324.J17999@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, akpm@osdl.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com Return-path: To: Russell King Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041008191324.J17999@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>; from rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk on Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 07:13:24PM +0100 Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 07:13:24PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:13:07PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > Backport of current 3c59x driver (minus EISA/sysfs stuff) from 2.6 to > > 2.4. This should ease further maintenance in 2.4. > > --- > > I've been chasing some 3c59x driver problems on both 2.4.x and 2.6.x > > kernels. The 3c59x driver was pretty far out of sync between the two > > trees, so I thought it made sense to sync them back up. > > Ah, if someone's looking at the 3c59x driver then please look into the > NWAY autonegotiation code - even maybe update it to use mii.c. Russell, If you can help to get my patches applied, then I'll be happy to look at this for you... :-) BTW, does this sound like the same issue: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75813 John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com