From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, atl2-test@lists.sourceforge.net,
jcliburn@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] atlx: add atl2 support
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:40:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48CC1718.50508@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080909061247.GA17834@file.rdu.redhat.com>
Chris Snook wrote:
> This patchset adds support for atl2 hardware to the atlx codebase. It is
> functionally very similar to the out-of-tree 2.0.4 version that many distros
> have been shipping for a few months, though it adds a fix from Atheros to fix
> the problem of device resets under heavy bidirectional load.
>
> The code needs a lot of janitorial work, and there's a lot of low-hanging fruit
> for merging similar atl1 code into the shared atlx code, but I think that work
> will go much faster once this is in-tree. The driver is known to work well for
> laptop and desktop use. The only major bugs are device initialization problems
> that manifest themselves immediately and obviously (the NIC doesn't work) with
> certain motherboards.
>
> Please consider this for the 2.6.28 merge window.
>
> -- Chris
>
> drivers/net/Kconfig | 17
> drivers/net/Makefile | 1
> drivers/net/atlx/Makefile | 1
> drivers/net/atlx/atl2.c | 3101 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> drivers/net/atlx/atl2.h | 482 +++++++
> include/linux/pci_ids.h | 1
> 6 files changed, 3600 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Send as one big patch, please?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-13 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-09 6:12 [PATCH 0/4] atlx: add atl2 support Chris Snook
2008-09-09 6:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] atlx: add atl2 pci id Chris Snook
2008-09-09 6:19 ` [PATCH 2/4] atlx: add atl2.h Chris Snook
2008-09-10 1:43 ` Jay Cliburn
2008-09-10 2:12 ` Chris Snook
2008-09-09 6:22 ` [PATCH 3/4] atlx: add atl2.c Chris Snook
2008-09-10 1:44 ` Jay Cliburn
2008-09-10 2:16 ` Chris Snook
2008-09-09 6:24 ` [PATCH 4/4] atlx: update build files for atl2 Chris Snook
2008-09-10 1:47 ` Jay Cliburn
2008-09-10 2:24 ` Chris Snook
2008-09-09 6:32 ` [PATCH 0/4] atlx: add atl2 support Chris Snook
2008-09-10 1:49 ` Jay Cliburn
2008-09-10 1:58 ` Jay Cliburn
2008-09-13 19:40 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2008-09-14 22:14 ` Chris Snook
2008-09-15 3:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-09-15 3:26 ` Chris Snook
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