I'll drop it from my tree then and let you and Jeff figure out what to do about it. Thanks, --david >>>>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:00:59 -0800, Grant Grundler <iod00d@hp.com> said: Grant> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 04:13:02PM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: >> I'd like to remove the attached old patch from my linux-ia64-2.5 tree. >> If anybody thinks it's still needed, please speak up now. Grant> Sorry - that's my mess. Feel free to remove it. Grant> I expect tulip will stop working for some folks. Grant> Turns out that while the simple udelay() usually works, the driver Grant> ignores the 802.3 spec. Newer patch is here: Grant> ftp://ftp.parisc-linux.org/patches/diff-tulip_phy_reset-03 Grant> Jeff Garzik rejected this patch because it introduces a potential Grant> 1ms delay while holding off interrupts. I agree this is not a good Grant> thing. But it's better than not working. Grant> Jeff wanted me to avoid this by adding schedule_timeout() to the code Grant> path someplace. I refused since the above Works For Me and the init Grant> sequence in tulip is, uhm, well, "difficult". It covers too many Grant> different NICs for me to even begin to understand all the variations. Grant> I felt my patch was fairly low risk change to a "mature" product. Grant> I'll maintain the patch for SuSE/RHAS/Debian on ia64 and for parisc-linux. Grant> thanks, Grant> grant - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Mon Jan 12 20:09:28 2004
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