From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Robert Stonehouse <rstonehouse@solarflare.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com,
spope@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6.25] New driver "sfc" for Solarstorm SFC4000 controller - 5th attempt
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 15:03:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47910610.3050207@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4790D1CD.80500@solarflare.com>
Robert Stonehouse wrote:
> This is a resubmission of a new driver for Solarflare network controllers.
>
> The driver supports several types of PHY (10Gbase-T, XFP, CX4) on six
> different 10G and 1G boards. There is a driver for the network controller
> and an MTD driver that allows access to the flash/EEPROM.
>
> NICs based on this controller are now available from SMC as part numbers
> SMC10GPCIe-XFP and SMC10GPCIe-10BT.
>
> FYI the previous thread was:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=119999015817920&w=2
>
> In previous postings we were asked to have the MTD part of this patch
> reviewed and we have responded to the comments received so far:
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2008-January/020355.html
>
> Things that have changed since the last patch:
> - Removed residual support for more than one port per controller.
> - Moved LED control from PHY operations to board operations.
> - Added support for controlling LRO through ethtool {get,set}_flags().
> - Removed obsolete workaround for reservation of MSI-X tables by PCI core.
> - Improved reliability of PHY loopback setting.
> - Improved reliability of I2C operations.
> - Fixed on-load self-test when using RSS.
> - Simplified MTD driver following review on linux-mtd list.
> - Removed some redundant information from struct efx_nic.
> - hardware monitoring (for PHY link polling) is now a workqueue item
> rather than using a timer
> - mac_lock becomes a mutex to support the previous item.
>
> We would welcome more review of this code and would like to know if there
> are any objections to this being merged for 2.6.25.
>
>
> The patch (against net-2.6.25) is at:
> https://support.solarflare.com/netdev/5/net-2.6.25-sfc-2.2.0045.patch
>
> The new files may also be downloaded as a tarball:
> https://support.solarflare.com/netdev/5/net-2.6.25-sfc-2.2.0045.tgz
>
> And for verification there is:
> https://support.solarflare.com/netdev/5/MD5SUMS
Please email to me in patch format...
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-18 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-18 16:20 [PATCH net-2.6.25] New driver "sfc" for Solarstorm SFC4000 controller - 5th attempt Robert Stonehouse
2008-01-18 17:16 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-01-18 20:03 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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