From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: NAPI for eepro100 Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 16:05:32 -0700 (PDT) Sender: owner-netdev@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: References: <3D0740ED.2060907@ict.ac.cn> <3D07D270.5060902@mandrakesoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: fxzhang@ict.ac.cn, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com, saw@saw.sw.com.sg, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com In-Reply-To: <3D07D270.5060902@mandrakesoft.com> List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Jeff Garzik Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:00:00 -0400 for the 'mips' patch, it looks like the arch maintainer(s) need to fix the PCI DMA support... No, it's worse than that. See how non-consistent memory is used by the eepro100 driver for descriptor bits? The skb->tail bits? That is very problematic.