From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jerone Young Subject: Re: via-velocity heads up (was (Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches)) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 11:53:09 -0500 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <9f50a7a0041011095324253e7f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041011072307.GA18577@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Reply-To: Jerone Young Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kernel Mailing List , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Francois Romieu In-Reply-To: <20041011072307.GA18577@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Yes, I also am able to finally use the via-velocity card without it taking down my router! The patches resolve issues with the card. I have been heavily using it now without a problem on X86_64 Linux. I have an Abit A8V with integrated Via Velocity card On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 09:23:07 +0200, Francois Romieu wrote: > Linus Torvalds : > [...] > > Summary of changes from v2.6.9-rc3 to v2.6.9-rc4 > > ============================================ > [...] > > Fran?ois Romieu: > > o via-velocity: properly manage the count of adapters > > o via-velocity: removal of unused velocity_info.xmit_lock > > o via-velocity: velocity_give_rx_desc() removal > > o via-velocity: received ring wrong index and missing barriers > > o via-velocity: early invocation of init_cam_filter() > > o via-velocity: removal of incomplete endianness handling > > o via-velocity: wrong buffer offset in velocity_init_td_ring() > > o via-velocity: comment fixes > > The attribution is a bit misleading as Tejun Heo > did the real work (he appears in the logs though). > > People should really, really, test this code if they have been > experiencing issues with the driver lately. > > Test reports welcome here or on netdev@oss.sgi.com. > > -- > Ueimor > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >