From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgb fixes Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:54:47 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <403D8A27.20703@pobox.com> References: <20040115140248.170a3ee3.shemminger@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Stephen Hemminger , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Ganesh Venkatesan , "Feldman, Scott" In-Reply-To: <20040115140248.170a3ee3.shemminger@osdl.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Stephen Hemminger wrote: > Ixgb driver in 2.6.1 (possibly 2.4) has several problems: > * register_netdev error never handled > * returns -ENOMEM for errors like bad eeprom etc > * keeps copy of device name in the private data structure > which is never used, and would be wrong anyway if > the device was renamed. Hey Intel guys... is this driver alive or dead? Jeff