From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752916AbYKCIPP (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 03:15:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754631AbYKCIO4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 03:14:56 -0500 Received: from rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de ([129.143.116.10]:57222 "EHLO rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755241AbYKCIOz (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 03:14:55 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 621 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:14:54 EST Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:04:30 +0100 From: Andreas Mohr To: "Kok, Auke" Cc: andi@lisas.de, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bunk@kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] e100 driver didn't support any MII-less PHYs... Message-ID: <20081103080430.GA32459@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> Reply-To: andi@lisas.de References: <20071228235118.GA31059@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <477732A5.5020501@intel.com> <20080101200908.GA14805@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <20080129230315.GA13389@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <479FB225.7090604@intel.com> <20080130064909.GA19793@rhlx01.hs-esslingen.de> <47A0A713.7030304@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47A0A713.7030304@intel.com> X-Priority: none User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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