Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:04:30 +0100 | From | Andreas Mohr <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] e100 driver didn't support any MII-less PHYs... |
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Hi,
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 08:34:27AM -0800, Kok, Auke wrote: > Andreas Mohr wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 03:09:25PM -0800, Kok, Auke wrote: > >> Andreas Mohr wrote: > >>> Perhaps it's useful to file a bug/patch > >>> on http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/ ? Perhaps -mm testing? > >> I wanted to push this though our testing labs first which has not happened due to > >> time constraints - that should quickly at least confirm that the most common nics > >> work OK after the change with your patch. I'll try and see if we can get this > >> testing done soon. > > > > Oh, full-scale regression testing even? Nice idea... > > Would optionally be even better if during hardware tests one could also > > dig out some i82503-based card (or additional MII-less cards?) > > since I didn't really make any effort yet to try to make them all > > recognized/supported by my patch already (would have been out of scope anyway > > since I have this single card only). > > the problem is that I think that most of those (mii-less cards) are customly > designed by OEM's that buy the silicon and glue on a different interface and we > usually do not carry those designs in our labs apart from a few exceptions. So, I > can at least touch the common hardware in testing, but not the exotic stuff.
Any update on how to get this support in? (it's not available in 2.6.28-rc2)
As it stands, I'm not the only one who would need this...
Thanks!
Andreas Mohr
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