From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Lutomirski Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] 2.6.6-rc3-mm1 - description of the r8169 queue Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 23:32:27 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <4093447B.1010404@myrealbox.com> References: <20040501022308.A32762@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, Andy Lutomirski , Jon D Mason , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Francois Romieu In-Reply-To: <20040501022308.A32762@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Francois Romieu wrote: > With some delay, the following patches include Jon D Mason's NAPI changes > (+ fixes) and code from Andy Lutomirski with minor changes. > I have not moved the initialization of the phy timer in the pci probe > routine as: > - I believe it belongs to the netdevice; > - it should work as is without significant change for the user. > > If someone sees a good reason to move it, just complain (with an axe). I moved the timer because I didn't know about netif_running(). This looks fine. > > The patches apply to 2.6.6-rc3 as well as to 2.6.6-rc3-mm1. > > All the patches are merged in a single patch against 2.6.6-rc3 available at: > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/people/francois/misc/20040501-2.6.6-rc3-r8169.c-test.patch > > The patches are archived below as well: > http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.6-rc3 > > If the patches prove to behave decently on 2.6, a backport for 2.4.x will be > generated. Everything looks fine. I'm recompiling now; I'll let you know if I have any problems. Thanks, Andy > > -- > Ueimor