Jeff Garzik wrote:
quoted text > On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 06:14:10PM -0400, Chris Snook wrote:
>> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>
>>>
>> It's too big for vger as one patch. There's a lot of code that can be
>> whittled down, but this driver has been delayed for months already
>> waiting for that to be finished. Would you prefer a gzipped One Big
>> Patch?
>
> _I_ need it in standard patch format, as one big patch. No MIME
> encoding, no gzip, no URLs, just a patch like any other.
>
> Jeff
See Jay's post, in single-patch form, with some additional cosmetic cleanups and
my signoff.
-- Chris
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