Commenting below:
So, what needs to happen is somebody needs to look at the sis190 changes
that went in, and apply those same fixes to r8169.
Ok, cool. Didn't realize that, if you have a couple of references to
those discussions or patches, that would be awesome (so I don't have
to try to dig them up), otherwise, I'll research it some.
I was also going to look into merging the big endian patches I saw
posted earlier this month.
1) If you have problems with the tg3 driver, we need to get those bug
reports and fix them. bcm5700 is not going to be merged into the
kernel. Further, there was at least one serious x86-64 issue that was
fixed in tg3, and we need to make sure users are testing that driver,
not a non-standard driver with bugs of its own.
Ok, sounds like a plan. I'll get some testing on the latest tg3 driver
then, have those been merged into 2.6.0-test9-bk21, or is there another
patch I need to apply to my local tree (and in turn will be applied
to Gentoo's tree)?
2) Please CC me on all net driver patches, since I am the dude that
actually puts those patches into the kernel.
Cool, no problem.
I just took over the amd64 port for Gentoo a couple months back,
so I'm having to get into some stuff I haven't had to do before.
But I'm starting to learn some of the kernel internals/driver
infrastructure, so hopefully I'll be of some actual help in the
near future, assuming my actual job doesn't get in the way ;)
-Brad
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