From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] atlx: add atl2 support Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:40:08 -0400 Message-ID: <48CC1718.50508@garzik.org> References: <20080909061247.GA17834@file.rdu.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, atl2-test@lists.sourceforge.net, jcliburn@gmail.com To: Chris Snook Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:36498 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752541AbYIMTkL (ORCPT ); Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:40:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080909061247.GA17834@file.rdu.redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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?