From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mirko Lindner Subject: Re: [PATCH] convert skge to pci_driver API (2nd try) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 13:23:08 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <4100F51C.3030709@syskonnect.de> References: <20040620112859.GA13794@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, Ralph Roesler , Jeff Garzik Return-path: To: Christoph Hellwig In-Reply-To: <20040620112859.GA13794@lst.de> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hi Christoph, I'm sorry for this late answer. I was in holiday last weeks and couldn't check my company emails regulary. Thanks a lot for the patch. Actually, we were busy with the new driver version 7.x which yukon ec and yukon2 support, which involves also the new init and deinit pci driver API. The patch you have created is very similar to our work created about few months ago. The new driver version can be found at the moment for all testers on out page (http://www.syskonnect.de/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk9e21_lin.htm) and we are busy with additional stability and robustness tests. As soon as the driver is ready for the kernel stability we'll send the patches to Jeff and the KML. Therefore we would like to keep our driver consistent and it's not possible for us to merge your changes into our code tree. Please don't apply the patch to the kernel tree, there are several problems with proc and locking which will probably lead to kernel oops. The new V7.05 version includes all kernel patches since the last v6 driver release and additional code for handling the new descriptor (lists) logic of yukon ec and yukon2 cards, ethtool support, tcp-segmentation, power management. proc fs cleanups and changes for the interrupt moderation. Cheers, Mirko