Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Feb 2007 17:53:47 +0000 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Linux 2.4.35-pre1 |
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Hi all !
Here comes 2.4.35-pre1. It contains the same fixes as 2.4.34.1, and provides an update for the e1000 driver as well as a backport of Stephen Hemminger's skge/sky2 driver which is being used in 2.6.
People concerned by the lack of support for recent chips in current stable e1000 driver are asked to test this version and complain loudly if they suspect any regression. I have personally tried it with success on x86-SMP and Alpha. Note that you need it if you recently bought some replacement NICs because the old driver is unlikely to support them anymore.
People equiped with a Marvell gigabit chip may be interested in giving a try to the current backport of the skge/sky2 driver. The skge driver seems to work correctly, and better than sk98lin on UDP. The sky2 driver is still a bit young and I could make it hang several times under high loads or dirty traffic. That said, in a testing tree I quickly backported a handful of more recent patches to it which made it rock solid, so it's just a matter of work and time. Stephen offered to update it to reflect the version running in 2.6. As he did a great job till there, I'm sure that the problems with current sk98lin will soon become bad old memories.
I delayed the integration of a bunch of harmless typo fixes so that we can focus on those changes first, so please test this version !
Thanks in advance, Willy
Summary of changes from v2.4.34 to v2.4.35-pre1 ============================================
Christian Praehauser (1): [NET] ethernet: Fix first packet goes out with MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00
dann frazier (1): smbfs: fix problems introduced by last security backport
Jesse Brandeburg (3): e1000: integrate latest 2.4 linux driver [MAINTAINERS]: update e1000 maintainers e1000: update README
Oliver Neukum (1): proper locking on disconnect for mdc800
Willy Tarreau (2): merge 2.6 backport of skge/sky2 network drivers Change VERSION to 2.4.35-pre1
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