From: Stefan Rompf <srompf@isg.de>
To: jgarzik@pobox.com
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Patch: link state detection for 8139too against 2.4.20rc2 / 2.5
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 23:36:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DF51ADB.47E83F81@isg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3DE0CA4C.730699FC@isg.de
Hi,
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > ...that was some days ago. I've seen that Jeff is enhancing the MII
> > interface library, so I used the functions provided there. Patch is
> > against 2.4.20rc2 and 2.5 with some offset. Please apply if it looks
> > good.
[...]
> close -- you don't want to unconditionally "initialize" the media
> (mii_check_media second arg).
I've just seen the reason: No need to read the MII_ADVERTISE register
once the structure has been initialized. Expect another patch the next
days.
> the phy code is gonna be pretty darned similar. Eventually the phy code
> needs to move to a common 8139lib.c, because both old-8139 line and
May be. However, I cannot help there. I just have one card of the 8139
family, and all I could produce is some compiles for me stuff -
something that I would not consider helpful.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-09 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-11 23:55 Patch: link state detection for 8139too against 2.5.41 Stefan Rompf
2002-10-12 4:14 ` Donald Becker
2002-10-13 12:49 ` Stefan Rompf
2002-10-14 17:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-24 12:47 ` Patch: link state detection for 8139too against 2.4.20rc2 / 2.5 Stefan Rompf
2002-12-09 22:36 ` Stefan Rompf [this message]
2002-12-09 23:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-11-28 4:58 ` Jeff Garzik
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