Re: New driver questions: Attansic L1 gigabit NIC

2006-08-16 Thread John Haller
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:23:19 -0500 Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:11:42 -0500 Jay Cliburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...snip... I've read the LKML FAQ regarding new driver submissions, but it implies that the su

Re: [RFC PATCH 32/33] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

2006-07-18 Thread John Haller
Herbert Xu wrote: jamal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I dont think the ifup/ifconfig provide operational status (i.e link up/down) - or do they? If they can be made to invoke scripts in such a case then we are set. In fact, that's a very good reason why this shouldn't be in netfront. Indeed, it s

Re: [PATCH 1/3] mv643xx fixes - Disable interrupts on all ports during initialization

2006-06-27 Thread John Haller
Brent Cook wrote: This patch disable interrupts on all ports during initialization. The current assumes that the firmware has already disabled all interrupts on all ports. We have encountered some boards that do not always disable interrupts (XES XPedite 6200 for instance) on a soft reset. This

Re: [PATCH] Move meth.o upwards in Makefile since it's built-in and should be eth0

2006-01-30 Thread John Haller
Stephen Hemminger wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 20:31:18 -0800 "Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How does one enfrce eth device ordering at run time, when drivers are compiled in? One thing I have done is to build as modules everything that I don't want to have the low numb