From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com,
blazara@nvidia.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk3] forcedeth: Gigabit ethernet support and media detection changes
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:38:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041017133807.GA21964@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0410171216490.29815-100000@dbl.q-ag.de>
On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:27:21PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Backport of the 0.29 forcedeth driver to 2.4.
> Changes:
> - lots of bugfixes.
> - completely rewritten PHY initialization and media detection
> - gigabit ethernet support
>
> The actual backport was done by Jane Liu from NVIDIA:
>
> - all occurrences of msleep changed to mdelay
that sounds wrong - mdelay spins instead of sleeping. Better provide
a msleep backport.
> - SET_NETDEV_DEV calls removed
doesn't recent 2.4 have a noop variant of it?
> - module_param call changed to MODULE_PARM
Didn't rusty backport module_param to 2.4 a while ago?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-17 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-17 10:27 [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk3] forcedeth: Gigabit ethernet support and media detection changes Manfred Spraul
2004-10-17 13:38 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-10-17 13:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-10-17 14:10 ` Manfred Spraul
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