| To: | Manfred Spraul <manfred@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk3] forcedeth: Gigabit ethernet support and media detection changes |
| From: | Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:38:07 +0100 |
| Cc: | jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx, marcelo.tosatti@xxxxxxxxxxxx, blazara@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx |
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On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:27:21PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > Backport of the 0.29 forcedeth driver to 2.4. > Changes: > - lots of bugfixes. > - completely rewritten PHY initialization and media detection > - gigabit ethernet support > > The actual backport was done by Jane Liu from NVIDIA: > > - all occurrences of msleep changed to mdelay that sounds wrong - mdelay spins instead of sleeping. Better provide a msleep backport. > - SET_NETDEV_DEV calls removed doesn't recent 2.4 have a noop variant of it? > - module_param call changed to MODULE_PARM Didn't rusty backport module_param to 2.4 a while ago? |
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