Re: [patches] 2.6.0-test9 - r8169 DMA API conversion

[Brad House <brad@xxxxxxxx>]

yes, I definately misunderstood then ...
sorry ;)
I'll just apply the patches to my version and see what happens ;)

-Brad

Andre Tomt wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 01:59, Brad House wrote:
>
> > any reason why it's not against the v1.6 ?
>
> I think you misunderstood. If I intepret the list correctly, the 1.6
> changes are in that list (as "your changes (week-end)".)
>
>
> > the current driver is missing support for the
> > 8110S chip (or at least it doesn't seem to work at all),
> > so you're cutting out all the chips on the mobos out there.
> > Haven't looked to see if it's just a PCI ID or other functionality,
> > but since the V1.2 is from realtek that's in the official
> > kernel, it would make sense to use the 1.6 patch....
>
> IIRC, the realtek one got cleaned up a great deal before entering
> mainline, both bug-fixes and coding style cleanups. Your patch may
> revert a lot of that work (I havn't looked at it closely.) Also the
> changelog differs for the 1.2 entry between the two versions, indicating
> just this.
>
> Lets take one step at a time ;-)
>
>
> > > It is against the original r8169. Once finished, it should look like:
> > > - first cut at dma api conversion (today)
> > > - remaining bits of dma api conversion (tomorrow)
> > > - rx_copybreak (tomorrow)
> > > - your changes (week-end)
> > > - big-endian fixes (week-end)
> > >
> > > Each part divided in reasonably small patches to ease the test/review process.