Subject: Re: DMA Quirks for skge.c

From: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 10:21:02 +0100

Hi

(cc Stephen and netdev)

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 04:40:26PM +1000, Shannon Wynter wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> I truly thank you for resolving the problem with the Gigabyte board
> as without your fix I never would have been able to pinpoint the
> issue I was having with my network card after upgrading my memory.
> 
> I submit to you a patch that adds the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium board to
> the list of poorly built boards.
> 
> I do wonder if it might be an idea to also add a module parameter
> that forces 32 bit.

Maybe for debug purposes it will be useful, but I dislike situation when
users have to use module options to make hardware work. Anyway Stephen
said that he works on better solution for that problem ... 

> Kind regards
> Shannon

> diff -uNr linux-2.6.37-rc3.old/drivers/net/skge.c linux-2.6.37-rc3.new//drivers/net/skge.c
> --- linux-2.6.37-rc3.old/drivers/net/skge.c	2010-11-26 08:35:21.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-2.6.37-rc3.new//drivers/net/skge.c	2010-11-26 08:58:52.000000000 +1000
> @@ -4158,6 +4158,13 @@
>  			DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "nForce"),
>  		},
>  	},
> +	{
> +		.ident = "ASUSTeK A8N-SLI Premium",
> +		.matches = {
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "ASUSTeK Computer INC."),
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "A8N-SLI Premium"),
> +		},
> +	},
>  	{}
>  };

Add Signed-off-by line and repost patch according to MAINTAINERS
file (to Stephen and netdev).

Thanks
Stanislaw