From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pierre TARDY Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMSC LAN911x and LAN921x vendor driver Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:42:55 +0100 Message-ID: <459D126F.5080300@freescale.com> References: <11674964822991-git-send-email-steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ian Saturley , Bahadir Balban Return-path: Received: from de01egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.165.103]:33404 "EHLO de01egw02.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964881AbXADOnI (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Jan 2007 09:43:08 -0500 To: Steve Glendinning In-Reply-To: <11674964822991-git-send-email-steve.glendinning@smsc.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Steve Glendinning wrote: > Attached is a driver for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x families of embedded > ethernet controllers. There is an existing smc911x driver in the tree; > this is intended to replace it. > > This driver contains workarounds for all known hardware issues, and has > been tested on all flavours of the chip on multiple architectures. > > Dustin McIntire (the author of the smc911x driver) has expressed his > support for switching to this driver. > > Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning > This patch has just been tested on my Freescale mx31 board, with a smsc9117, and Linux version 2.6.16.19. I agree to include it in mainstream. old smc911x is restricted to one architecture (PXA) and one chip (9118). Acked-by: Pierre Tardy -- Pierre Tardy