From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Cc: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 3c509.c: call SET_NETDEV_DEV for all device types (ISA/ISAPnP/EISA)
Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:30:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130425143038.5adb5078e7e6a69a10c43e69@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51799EFF.10003@cogentembedded.com>
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:24:15 +0400 Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On 26-04-2013 1:03, Sergei Shtylyov wrote:
>
> >> From: Matthew Whitehead <tedheadster@gmail.com>
>
> >> The venerable 3c509 driver only sets its device parent in one case, the
> >> ISAPnP one.
> >> It does this with the SET_NETDEV_DEV function. It should register with the
> >> device
> >> hierarchy in two additional cases: standard (non-PnP) ISA and EISA.
>
> >> - Currently they appear here:
> >> /sys/devices/virtual/net/eth0 (standard ISA)
> >> /sys/devices/virtual/net/eth1 (EISA)
>
> >> - Rather, they should instead be here:
> >> /sys/devices/isa/3c509.0/net/eth0 (standard ISA)
> >> /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/00:04/net/eth1 (EISA)
>
> >> Tested on ISA and EISA boards.
>
> > That's good but you forgot to sign off, so the patch can't be applied.
>
> > BTW, it seems that after almost 7 years I seem to have found a tester for
> > my patch which lingered all this time in the Andrew Morton's tree! You've said
> > you have EISA boards, how about testing my patch? Now if I could find Andrew
> > Morton's tree... Andrew?
>
> Found it at last at ozlabs.org but it turned out that Andrew has dropped
> the patch without notifying me. :-(
>
nah, you were asleep ;)
Message-Id: <200906101955.n5AJtMg7008475@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [obsolete] 3x59x-fix-pci-resource-management.patch removed from -mm tree
To: sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:55:21 -0700
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-25 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-25 20:29 [PATCH] 3c509.c: call SET_NETDEV_DEV for all device types (ISA/ISAPnP/EISA) Matthew Whitehead
2013-04-25 21:03 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-04-25 21:24 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-04-25 21:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-04-25 21:37 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-04-25 22:10 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2013-04-25 21:25 ` Andrew Morton
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2013-04-29 21:46 Matthew Whitehead
2013-04-30 19:33 ` David Miller
2013-04-23 17:49 Matthew Whitehead
2013-04-25 5:45 ` David Miller
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