From: Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>
To: Rahul Karnik <rahul@genebrew.com>,
Marcelo Penna Guerra <eu@marcelopenna.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Laurens <masterpe@xs4all.nl>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvidia nforce 1.0-261 nvnet for kernel 2.5
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 12:22:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200307271222.13649.adq_dvb@lidskialf.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F236A4A.2090302@genebrew.com>
> Tried shutting down the computer, and it was stuck during shutdown.
> Seems like the refcounting is not really working, or perhaps there are
> too many cycles happening. What happens if you do the following with a
> module:
>
> try_module_get
> MOD_INC_USE_COUNT
> MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT
> module_put
Thanks for pointing this out, they seem to have removed the module reference
counting. But really, I don't care whether it can unload or not. I just need
it to work. I'm not really interested in perfecting a quick hack to a
proprietary driver.
> > But I don't think the only thing missing is the MAC address. You could
> > try to manually set it in the source itself and see if anything works.
>
> I'll just add it in BIOS and try with AMD8111. No desire to futz around
> with the nvnet source, where half of what is going on is a complete
> black box (priv->hwapi, "priv" is definitely *private*).
Ah, so THATS who they licensed it from. I didn't think nividia would go to the
bother of designing their own ethernet hardware. I'll have a poke about and
see if I can find anything out about the MAC address
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-27 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-26 22:09 [PATCH] nvidia nforce 1.0-261 nvnet for kernel 2.5 Andrew de Quincey
2003-07-27 4:50 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-27 4:56 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-27 2:26 ` Marcelo Penna Guerra
2003-07-27 5:59 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-27 9:16 ` Laurens
2003-07-27 10:37 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-27 11:19 ` Andrew de Quincey
2003-07-27 11:22 ` Andrew de Quincey [this message]
2003-07-27 11:48 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-27 11:46 ` Andrew de Quincey
2003-07-27 12:02 ` Andrew de Quincey
2003-07-27 13:36 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-27 14:01 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-27 14:14 ` Andrew de Quincey
2003-07-27 14:44 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-27 15:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-27 16:28 ` Rahul Karnik
2003-07-27 19:51 ` Laurens
2003-07-28 1:09 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-27 23:11 ` Marcelo Penna Guerra
2003-07-28 8:53 ` Andrew de Quincey
2003-07-27 5:53 ` Brian Jackson
2003-07-29 8:44 Eric
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