On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 11:36:11PM +0100, Stefan Rompf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > > ...that was some days ago. I've seen that Jeff is enhancing the MII
> > > interface library, so I used the functions provided there. Patch is
> > > against 2.4.20rc2 and 2.5 with some offset. Please apply if it looks
> > > good.
>
> [...]
>
> > close -- you don't want to unconditionally "initialize" the media
> > (mii_check_media second arg).
>
> I've just seen the reason: No need to read the MII_ADVERTISE register
> once the structure has been initialized. Expect another patch the next
> days.
Thanks.
> > the phy code is gonna be pretty darned similar. Eventually the phy code
> > needs to move to a common 8139lib.c, because both old-8139 line and
>
> May be. However, I cannot help there. I just have one card of the 8139
> family, and all I could produce is some compiles for me stuff -
> something that I would not consider helpful.
<shrug> I would consider it helpful. If you are willing to do the
coding and worksforme testing, I can review and do further testing.
Part of the power of open source :)
Jeff
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