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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

  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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