Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMSC LAN911x and LAN921x vendor driver

From: Pierre TARDY <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:42:55 +0100

Steve Glendinning wrote:
> Attached is a driver for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x families of embedded
> ethernet controllers.  There is an existing smc911x driver in the tree;
> this is intended to replace it.
>
> This driver contains workarounds for all known hardware issues, and has
> been tested on all flavours of the chip on multiple architectures.
>
> Dustin McIntire (the author of the smc911x driver) has expressed his
> support for switching to this driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <[email-masked]>
>   
This patch has just been tested on my Freescale mx31 board, with a 
smsc9117, and Linux version 2.6.16.19.
I agree to include it in mainstream.
old smc911x is restricted to one architecture (PXA) and one chip (9118).

Acked-by: Pierre Tardy <[email-masked]>

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Pierre Tardy