From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brad House Subject: Re: r8169 and tg3 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 23:51:40 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3FB9A55C.5090901@mcve.com> References: <47973.68.105.173.45.1069042089.squirrel@mail.mainstreetsoftworks.com> <3FB9A277.70309@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Brad House , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <3FB9A277.70309@pobox.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Commenting below: > > So, what needs to happen is somebody needs to look at the sis190 changes > that went in, and apply those same fixes to r8169. Ok, cool. Didn't realize that, if you have a couple of references to those discussions or patches, that would be awesome (so I don't have to try to dig them up), otherwise, I'll research it some. I was also going to look into merging the big endian patches I saw posted earlier this month. > 1) If you have problems with the tg3 driver, we need to get those bug > reports and fix them. bcm5700 is not going to be merged into the > kernel. Further, there was at least one serious x86-64 issue that was > fixed in tg3, and we need to make sure users are testing that driver, > not a non-standard driver with bugs of its own. Ok, sounds like a plan. I'll get some testing on the latest tg3 driver then, have those been merged into 2.6.0-test9-bk21, or is there another patch I need to apply to my local tree (and in turn will be applied to Gentoo's tree)? > > 2) Please CC me on all net driver patches, since I am the dude that > actually puts those patches into the kernel. Cool, no problem. I just took over the amd64 port for Gentoo a couple months back, so I'm having to get into some stuff I haven't had to do before. But I'm starting to learn some of the kernel internals/driver infrastructure, so hopefully I'll be of some actual help in the near future, assuming my actual job doesn't get in the way ;) -Brad