From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.13 2/2] 3c59x: add option for using memory-mapped PCI I/O resources
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 15:15:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050906151546.4d5ed4db.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050906220922.GA26003@tuxdriver.com>
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> wrote:
>
> I fully intend to have have a flag in the private data set based on
> the PCI ID when I accumulate some data on which devices support this
> and which don't. So far I've only got a short list... Do you think
> such a flag should be based on which ones work, or which ones break?
The ones which are known to work.
Bear in mind that this is an old, messy and relatively stable driver which
handles a huge number of different NICs. Caution is the rule here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-06 22:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-06 20:41 [patch 2.6.13 1/2] 3c59x: convert to use of pci_iomap API John W. Linville
2005-09-06 20:44 ` [patch 2.6.13 2/2] 3c59x: add option for using memory-mapped PCI I/O resources John W. Linville
2005-09-06 20:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-09-06 21:04 ` Andrew Morton
[not found] ` <20050906220922.GA26003@tuxdriver.com>
2005-09-06 22:15 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-09-06 22:57 ` John W. Linville
2005-09-06 23:13 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-12 14:48 ` [patch 2.6.13] 3c59x: enable use of memory-mapped PCI I/O John W. Linville
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