Re: [BK PATCHES] lotsa net driver merges

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Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> > Linus,
> >
> > A bunch of net driver changes, few noteworthy.  The interesting changes:
> >
> > 1) Add two helpers to PCI API, pci_set_mwi and pci_clear_mwi, for
> > enabling and disabling Memory-Write-Invalidate transcations.  This is
> > really just a cleanup, moving code that existed in drivers/net/* for a
> > long time into drivers/pci where it belongs.
> >
> > GNU PATCH ATTACHED for reference and review
> >
> > 2) Add new gige driver tg3
> >
> > 3) Add new 10/100 driver e100
> 
> In case you are using intel's 1.8.37 driver, I can cause a kernel panic
> in it by trying to reset the transceiver through MII IOCTLs..  I've
> been passing email with their support, so hopefully it will be resolved
> soon.

Ug, did you need to quote the entire message just for this?

Anyway, this is e100 version 2.0.19, with lots of changes by the Intel
folks at my request.

	Jeff



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