[PATCH] sungem update

David S. Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Jan 26 17:42:48 EST 2005


On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:10:14 +1100
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:

> This patch updates the sungem driver. I reworked all of the PM stuff, making it
> less prone to races, probably simpler to read as well, and I no longer shut the
> PHY down when the interface is down so that things like laptop-net no longer
> die (the gain in power consumption was minimal, not worth the pain). I also
> implemented basic WOL support.
> 
> There is still something I'm not totally happy with in the locking
> (explained in the comment at the beginning), basically too much locking and a
> couple of places with delays in locks. I will try to improve these later on.
> 
> If you are happy with this, please forward to Linus/Andrew asap

Sorry for taking so long.  I'll try to quick review and sanity
test this on my sparc sungem chips tomorrow Ben.



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