From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Turner Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Allow the driver to be used on PA RISC C8000 workstation Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:33:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1538517.jd8kKEpd3f@donald.sf-tec.de> <2567734.3Tpd1BeV4a@donald.sf-tec.de> <1793556.1X3EUabhs6@donald.sf-tec.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "kyle@mcmartin.ca" , "linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org" , "e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, Guy Martin , "mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" To: Rolf Eike Beer Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1793556.1X3EUabhs6@donald.sf-tec.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: e1000-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wro= te: > Rolf Eike Beer wrote: >> Am Freitag, 18. M=E4rz 2011, 17:39:57 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer: >> > Am Mittwoch, 2. M=E4rz 2011, 21:19:24 schrieb Jesse Brandeburg: >> > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Guy Martin wr= ote: >> > > > Hi Jeff, >> > > > >> > > > Any luck getting this into mainline ? >> > > >> > > Hi Guy, sorry for the delay, >> > > We haven't been able to get our contacts in HP to give us a decent >> > > response so far, we are following up with them to see whats up. =A0We >> > > have not lost the patch and are still tracking it internally. >> > > >> > > Give us a couple more weeks if that is okay and we should be able to >> > > settle this by then. >> > >> > I wonder what exactly you are waiting for? This is a sanity check that >> > we >> > disable, so no working systems could get broken by this. And every >> > single >> > C8000 seems to be affected by this and is working fine with that patch. >> > So maybe people at HP might have a clue _why_ this is screwed, but >> > until then I don't see any point in waiting. >> > >> > So please just add my tested-by and push this upstream soon. Since this >> > is basically a hardware quirk I would like to get this into stable also >> > so we may run vanilla 2.6.38.1 or something like that on C8000. >> > >> > Tested-by: Rolf Eike Beer >> >> For the netdev folks: it's this patch we are talking about >> >> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-parisc/msg03091.html >> >> I would love to see that someone finally picks this up and pushes this >> upstream, CC stable. This is absolutely annoying as it breaks every time >> anyone touches the kernel on one of this machines. >> >> Jeff, David, James: can you please make a decision of who takes this and >> then just do it? > > Ping? Ping indeed. Waiting as if HP is going to say "yes, we fucked that up. Go ahead with the patch." is silly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= --- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security = threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes = sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.co= m/community/wired