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Re: [prepatch] 3c59x.c

To: Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [prepatch] 3c59x.c
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 06:41:19 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx" <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Andrew Morton writes:
 > Please let me know if this all looks sane and I'll punt
 > it over to Linus.  Or we could roll them together if
 > you're confident that zerocopy is going in.  I'd like
 > to get the unrelated fixes into 2.4.1....

Looks fine.  Keep the patch together, it'll make my diffs
smaller too :-)

Oh yes, and fix this please: 

 > +  The "zero copy" patch which is planned for kernel 2.4.1 allows you to
 > +  make use of the transmit checksumming as well.

The zerocopy patch is currently scheduled for 2.4.2 at the
earliest :-)))  2.4.1 is still bug fixing only, no feature
adds.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@xxxxxxxxxx

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