Re: [ANNOUNCE] NAPI patches for 2.4.19-rc1

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

Jason Lunz wrote:
> I've backported the most recent napi sources I could find to 2.4.19-rc1.
> The patches are available at http://orr.falooley.org/pub/linux/net/.
> 
> Testing and suggestions are welcome. Currently backported napi drivers
> are e1000, eepro100, tulip, and 3c59x. I intend to backport dl2k and
> sundance at some point, but I have no dl2k cards and I'm working with
> Donald Becker to get the sundance driver working on the card I have.
> 
> Does anyone know of more recent NAPI conversions? Robert Olsson tells me
> Jeff Garzik has a more recent tulip conversion, but there are _no_ napi
> net drivers in 2.5.25 and I haven't found any others except for those
> mentioned at the NAPI ftp site.
> 
> Jason

The tulip driver I saw on the napi web site was based off of the one
in kernel 2.4.2, which was back when tulip was broken for a lot of
cards (especially mine).

Is that where you got the basis for this last port?

Thanks, I'll try out the tulip and NAPI patches ASAP.

Ben

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