Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.28-pre4-bk3] forcedeth: Gigabit ethernet support and media detection changes

From: Christoph Hellwig <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 14:38:07 +0100

On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 12:27:21PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Backport of the 0.29 forcedeth driver to 2.4.
> Changes:
> - lots of bugfixes.
> - completely rewritten PHY initialization and media detection
> - gigabit ethernet support
> 
> The actual backport was done by Jane Liu from NVIDIA:
> 
> - all occurrences of msleep changed to mdelay

that sounds wrong - mdelay spins instead of sleeping.  Better provide
a msleep backport.

> - SET_NETDEV_DEV calls removed

doesn't recent 2.4 have a noop variant of it?

> - module_param call changed to MODULE_PARM

Didn't rusty backport module_param to 2.4 a while ago?