Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Pull request for 'r8169-fixes' branch

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:42:41 -0400

Francois Romieu wrote:
> Please pull from branch 'r8169-fixes' in repository
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/romieu/netdev-2.6.git r8169-fixes
> 
> to get the changes below.
> 
> Distance from 'upstream-davem' (d6f8aa8586dabe605454f3c98a5c1a577c3e0cfb)
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 2857ffb7b8913ef713533ac5783abd70a20529e4
> dacf815434a4d5f5b45687873df46927c64cfb19
> f162a5d1b326d54b0be7e3100f69763d8a707721
> 9c14ceafa5ca7f57225a43fb0785c56ddc7f1823
> 458a9f617adfb2fc5f38e7673339115c4ba3290f
> ccdffb9a88b2907b159538d7bfd6256621db4f84
> 
> Diffstat
> --------
> 
>  drivers/net/r8169.c |  401 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  1 files changed, 335 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
> 
> Shortlog
> --------
> 
> Francois Romieu (6):
>       r8169: get ethtool settings through the generic mii helper
>       r8169: Tx performance tweak helper
>       r8169: use pci_find_capability for the PCI-E features
>       r8169: add 8168/8101 registers description
>       r8169: add hw start helpers for the 8168 and the 8101
>       r8169: additional 8101 and 8102 support

The patches look fine, but it wasn't really -rc3 material (released Aug 
13, you posted this Aug 17) to add register descriptions and new 
hardware support.

Is any of this critical for 2.6.27?

I already applied the map/unmap fix.

	Jeff