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Re: [patch 2.4.28-pre3] 3c59x: resync with 2.6

To: Russell King <rmk+lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.4.28-pre3] 3c59x: resync with 2.6
From: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:26:03 -0400
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 07:13:24PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 12:13:07PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > Backport of current 3c59x driver (minus EISA/sysfs stuff) from 2.6 to
> > 2.4.  This should ease further maintenance in 2.4.
> > ---
> > I've been chasing some 3c59x driver problems on both 2.4.x and 2.6.x
> > kernels.  The 3c59x driver was pretty far out of sync between the two
> > trees, so I thought it made sense to sync them back up.
> 
> Ah, if someone's looking at the 3c59x driver then please look into the
> NWAY autonegotiation code - even maybe update it to use mii.c.

Russell,

If you can help to get my patches applied, then I'll be happy to look at
this for you... :-)

BTW, does this sound like the same issue:

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75813

John
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