From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: be more selective about FIFO watchdog Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:30:46 -0700 Message-ID: <20070920143046.61fce43b@freepuppy.rosehill> References: <20070920130349.252ecdb9@freepuppy.rosehill> <46F2DD41.30909@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:48872 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753359AbXITVbG (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:31:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <46F2DD41.30909@pobox.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:51:13 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > Be more selective about when to enable the ram buffer watchdog code. > > It is unnecessary on XL A3 or later revs, and with Yukon FE > > the buffer is so small (4K) that the watchdog detects false positives. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger > > With all the sky2 patches flying about, it would be wise to include > notes like "applies to 2.6.23-rc" or "net-2.6.24" after the standard > "---" terminator. > > is this patch supposed to go on top of the sky2 patches that Linus just > pulled? > > It can go after previous 6 on both 2.6.23-rc and net-2.6.24 (with fuzz) -- Stephen Hemminger