- 1. 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: xxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 14:12:28 +0000
- Would anyone object if I did some work on this driver? (2.3.99) Let me assume the answer is "no" and plunge on... I have identified a stack of things which _could_ be done. I've broken them down into
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00045.html (13,057 bytes)
- 2. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: xxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:15:11 -0500 (EST)
- You should bring this up on the linux-vortex mailing list. If you do not read the linux-vortex mailing list, you should not even think about modifying the driver until you understand more about it. T
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00046.html (16,779 bytes)
- 3. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: xxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:58:10 -0700
- Sounds good to me. I'd like to see support for the 4 extra bytes that 802.1Q vlan needs, as well as the ability to change the MAC on the card, if possible. (If these are already available, then pleas
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00047.html (8,760 bytes)
- 4. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: netosv)
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:59:44 +0000
- thanks for the reply - I hoped you would be listening. I'd like to work this through a little more then summarise the outcome as a plan of what (if anything) needs to be done. Once the intended chan
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00053.html (12,971 bytes)
- 5. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: xxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:20:02 -0500 (EST)
- You should understand my stance on this: I wrote and maintained many drivers for seven years. In the past seven months significant, poorly considered changes were made to the driver interface. For mo
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00054.html (14,956 bytes)
- 6. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: xxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 19:25:16 +0800 (SGT)
- Donald, I apologize, but I daresay you seems to have short memory. The changes in interface driver <-> linux/net were proposed by you on September 20 1998. If you forgot this I can bounce your draft
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00055.html (10,254 bytes)
- 7. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: netosv)
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:49:39 +0000
- uh-oh. Guys, we all know there's a lot of history. Could we please just concentrate on the future? There are drivers to be got going, no? If Don has the bandwidth for this it would be very good. One
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00056.html (9,938 bytes)
- 8. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 00:02:08 +0800 (SGT)
- Right. Alas, 2.4 is rather present than future tense, so that let's concentrate on the present yet. 8) 8) If you know the history, you know that it is exactly which I prayed to make. I am sorry but
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00057.html (10,096 bytes)
- 9. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 15:01:43 +0000
- Hi, Alexey. Sorry, I guess I was venting a little frustration. As an experienced system programmer (20 years. gad.) I _expect_ to be able to pick up the architectural aspects quickly but after quite
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00061.html (11,912 bytes)
- 10. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: xxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:32:01 -0500 (EST)
- I can answer the two questions that are historical. Because they are semi-broken. Someone, I don't recall the details, converted drivers to modules. But they had the perspective that only one card of
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00062.html (11,073 bytes)
- 11. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: xxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:29:29 +0400 (MSK DST)
- I do not know better one, I am sorry. By historical reasons. This mess was supposed to be rectified some time ago in 2.3 (when file drivers/net/setup.c was created), but the cleanup was not complete
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00066.html (12,950 bytes)
- 12. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: xxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 12:53:54 -0500 (EST)
- No, this is unrelated. The specific problem was a crude coversion of drivers to use modules, but the conversion only supported a single card via a single static structure. I didn't use that module co
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00067.html (15,168 bytes)
- 13. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: xxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:45:15 +0400 (MSK DST)
- You are right. I tried to kill it while 2.1 and failed miserably by the same reason. 8) Too much of hacks... It was difficult to clean this without harm. The attempt made recently (seems, by Alan) i
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00068.html (15,459 bytes)
- 14. 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 14:12:28 +0000
- Would anyone object if I did some work on this driver? (2.3.99) Let me assume the answer is "no" and plunge on... I have identified a stack of things which _could_ be done. I've broken them down into
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00130.html (13,057 bytes)
- 15. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: Donald Becker <becker@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 12:15:11 -0500 (EST)
- You should bring this up on the linux-vortex mailing list. If you do not read the linux-vortex mailing list, you should not even think about modifying the driver until you understand more about it. T
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00131.html (16,804 bytes)
- 16. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 11:58:10 -0700
- Sounds good to me. I'd like to see support for the 4 extra bytes that 802.1Q vlan needs, as well as the ability to change the MAC on the card, if possible. (If these are already available, then pleas
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00132.html (8,815 bytes)
- 17. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:59:44 +0000
- Donald, thanks for the reply - I hoped you would be listening. I'd like to work this through a little more then summarise the outcome as a plan of what (if anything) needs to be done. Once the intend
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00138.html (13,043 bytes)
- 18. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: Donald Becker <becker@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 14:20:02 -0500 (EST)
- You should understand my stance on this: I wrote and maintained many drivers for seven years. In the past seven months significant, poorly considered changes were made to the driver interface. For mo
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00139.html (15,010 bytes)
- 19. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alexey Kuznetosv)
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 19:25:16 +0800 (SGT)
- Hello! Donald, I apologize, but I daresay you seems to have short memory. The changes in interface driver <-> linux/net were proposed by you on September 20 1998. If you forgot this I can bounce your
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00140.html (10,301 bytes)
- 20. Re: 3c59x.c (score: 1)
- Author: Andrew Morton <andrewm@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:49:39 +0000
- uh-oh. Guys, we all know there's a lot of history. Could we please just concentrate on the future? There are drivers to be got going, no? If Don has the bandwidth for this it would be very good. One
- /archives/netdev/2000-03/msg00141.html (10,010 bytes)
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