From: Kent Yoder <key@austin.ibm.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>,
<felipewd@elipse.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pcnet32 cable status check
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 10:31:01 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210071027030.1408-100000@ennui.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D99D923.5080200@pobox.com>
Thus Spake Jeff Garzik:
>As Felipe mentioned, using the link interrupt instead of a timer is
>preferred -- but my own preference would be to apply your patch with the
>small remove-lp->mii-check fixup, and then investigate the support of
>link interrupts. The reasoning is that, pcnet32 covers a ton of chips,
>and not all may support a link interrupt.
Jeff, I came across a PCNET FAST/79C971, which apparently also does not
give an interrupt when the cable is pulled. (My original tested card was a
PCnet/FAST III 79C975).
Kent
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-07 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-30 19:31 [PATCH] pcnet32 cable status check Kent Yoder
2002-09-30 20:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-09-30 21:48 ` Oops on 2.5.39 was " Kent Yoder
2002-09-30 21:55 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-01 16:34 ` Kent Yoder
2002-10-01 16:50 ` Felipe W Damasio
2002-10-01 17:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-01 17:19 ` Kent Yoder
2002-10-01 17:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-01 17:30 ` Kent Yoder
2002-10-01 17:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-01 19:35 ` Kent Yoder
2002-10-01 17:40 ` Felipe W Damasio
2002-10-07 15:31 ` Kent Yoder [this message]
2002-10-22 1:33 ` Jeff Garzik
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