From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Acker Subject: Re: [2.6.25 patch] the planned eepro100 removal Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:42:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4721EEA8.1060601@roinet.com> References: <20071024162440.GN30533@stusta.de> <4720FFAA.9080709@tmr.com> <47211A67.2090201@pobox.com> <47211C08.2040601@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Garzik , Bill Davidsen , Adrian Bunk , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, saw@saw.sw.com.sg To: "Kok, Auke" Return-path: Received: from static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([72.92.88.10]:36056 "EHLO smtp.roinet.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753545AbXJZNsV (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:48:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <47211C08.2040601@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Kok, Auke wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> Adrian Bunk wrote: >>>> This patch contains the planned removal of the eepro100 driver. >>>> >>> Are the e100 people satisfied that e100 now handles all known cases? I >> Nope. There are still e100 work outstanding that means we cannot kill >> eepro100. > > Agreed, there is still a receive unit hang in the last version that I got from > David Acker. > > Auke Yes, I have not had much time to work on it. :-( In testing, I was also able to get crashes which I believe are from receive skb corruption. It doesn't ever appear in our normal use testing, just when using pktgen against it while it uses pktgen out. Sadly this has pushed it down the slippery priority slope. I am sorry if I am holding things up. I will try to put some more time in on this issue as soon as I can. -Ack