From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Andersen Subject: Re: via-velocity heads up (was (Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches)) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:32:28 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <416A8B6C.30206@linux-user.net> References: <20041011072307.GA18577@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kernel Mailing List , Tejun Heo , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Francois Romieu In-Reply-To: <20041011072307.GA18577@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Francois Romieu wrote: > Linus Torvalds : > [...] > >>Summary of changes from v2.6.9-rc3 to v2.6.9-rc4 >>============================================ > > [...] > >>Fran?ois Romieu: >> o via-velocity: properly manage the count of adapters >> o via-velocity: removal of unused velocity_info.xmit_lock >> o via-velocity: velocity_give_rx_desc() removal >> o via-velocity: received ring wrong index and missing barriers >> o via-velocity: early invocation of init_cam_filter() >> o via-velocity: removal of incomplete endianness handling >> o via-velocity: wrong buffer offset in velocity_init_td_ring() >> o via-velocity: comment fixes > > > The attribution is a bit misleading as Tejun Heo > did the real work (he appears in the logs though). > > People should really, really, test this code if they have been > experiencing issues with the driver lately. > > Test reports welcome here or on netdev@oss.sgi.com. > I'm finally able to successfully use my On board VT6122 10/100/1000 Mb PCI Ethernet Controller on my Abit KV8-Pro. I have not found any problems with the via-velocity driver yet. Great work! :) Daniel Andersen --