Subject: Re: via-velocity heads up (was (Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc4 - pls test (and no more patches))

From: Daniel Andersen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:32:28 +0200

Francois Romieu wrote:
> Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]> :
> [...]
> 
>>Summary of changes from v2.6.9-rc3 to v2.6.9-rc4
>>============================================
> 
> [...]
> 
>>Fran?ois Romieu:
>>  o via-velocity: properly manage the count of adapters
>>  o via-velocity: removal of unused velocity_info.xmit_lock
>>  o via-velocity: velocity_give_rx_desc() removal
>>  o via-velocity: received ring wrong index and missing barriers
>>  o via-velocity: early invocation of init_cam_filter()
>>  o via-velocity: removal of incomplete endianness handling
>>  o via-velocity: wrong buffer offset in velocity_init_td_ring()
>>  o via-velocity: comment fixes
> 
> 
> The attribution is a bit misleading as Tejun Heo <[email-masked]>
> did the real work (he appears in the logs though).
> 
> People should really, really, test this code if they have been
> experiencing issues with the driver lately.
> 
> Test reports welcome here or on [email-masked].
> 

I'm finally able to successfully use my On board VT6122 10/100/1000 Mb 
PCI Ethernet Controller on my Abit KV8-Pro. I have not found any 
problems with the via-velocity driver yet. Great work! :)

Daniel Andersen

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