Hi, On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 01:07:56PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 03:15:37PM -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > > He is referring to a patch to add support for devices which do not use > > the MII interface which use an Intel MAC. I have the patch in my > > local tree and have been keeping it up-to-date. I should have an > > update on this patch after the New Year. > > Thanks! > > One idea worth pondering might be to provide a special struct > mii_if_info hookup (fully emulated mdio_read()/write()) > for the case of the non-MII hardware types of this driver, > thus eliminating any added penalty in the case of nicely MII-compliant > hardware. > But this should be tackled later, now let's better move on with eepro100 > (non-)plans... > > Andreas Mohr
Given that 2.6.29-rc now actually has eepro100.c removed (since -rc3 or so) and the current -rc6 e100.c does not contain non-MII parts, it looks like 2.6.29 proper will actually remove support for some PCI-based non-MII e100 cards. Thus I'd like to ask what should be done about this for real. Of course we could consciously decide to simply skip e100.c support for those non-MII cards entirely (hoping that they're not THAT wide-spread), but obviously I'd semi-hate this (nevermind the fact that _locally_ I'd have to swap cards, too, which is somewhat more of a problem given an older network requiring to be served by "combo" cards). Simply spoken, it all boils down to actively deciding what to do in the next, about-to-be _affected_, kernel version about support for cards that an older, deprecated driver did support and the new one doesn't. Or one could just let things progress as-is and wait for yet unknown (non-)amounts of scorching user feedback to arrive after 2.6.29 has hit their machines ;) My description in the mail above was meant to list things to be done _after_ an initial non-MII support for e100.c has been added, just for clarification. Thanks, Andreas Mohr ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
