Hi Alex,
Are there many variants of in-kernel drivers? If there are many, I don't
think the Click Router Project can follow all the variants.
thanks.
Bingyang
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Alexander Duyck <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Bingyang,
>
> You might want to work with the maintainers for the Click Router project
> in order to see if they can provide you with updated patches for the
> in-kernel version of the driver.
>
> If we were to update e1000 you would still need updated patches in order
> for things to work due to a number of changes we would need to make in
> order for the driver to support changes in the kernel. If they can
> provide you with updated patch that works with the in-kernel drivers it
> would likely help to resolve this issue and any issues that should come
> up with that driver going forward.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
> On 11/14/2011 10:47 AM, Bingyang LIU wrote:
> > Hi Alex,
> >
> > Thank you very much for your reply.
> >
> > Actually, the in-kernel driver works just fine.
> > However, I want to use kernel mode Click Router
> > <http://read.cs.ucla.edu/click/> with polling function. Click router
> > provides patches for some e1000 drivers (2.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x,
> > 7.3.20, 7.6.15.5 and e-0.4.1.7) to achieve my goal, but the problem is
> > that these e1000 drivers cannot work with kernel 2.6.32-31.
> >
> > best
> > Bingyang
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Alexander Duyck
> > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/10/2011 09:11 PM, Bingyang LIU wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I was trying to install e1000-7.6.15.5 on unbuntu 10.04, whose
> > kernel
> > > version is 2.6.32.-31.
> > >
> > > However, e1000 driver uses a linux kernel structure
> > "net_device", which
> > > seems obsolete, and a new struct net_device_ops is used in 2.6.31+.
> > >
> > > So, does any one know how to use the e1000 driver on 2.6.31+ ?
> > >
> > > thanks very much!
> > >
> > > best
> > > Bingyang
> > Bingyang,
> >
> > There should be an e1000 driver included with the 2.6.31 kernel that
> > will support your product.
> >
> > Is there a specific feature your require that is currently not
> present
> > in the 2.6.32 kernel? I ask because we are planning to change to a
> > kernel only maintenance model for e1000 on/around Q2 of 2012. If you
> > have an open issue that is resolved in the sourceforge driver that is
> > not addressed in the in-kernel driver please submit a bug on
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/support so that we might
> address
> > it prior to discontinuing maintenance for the sourceforge driver.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Alex
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bingyang Liu
> > Network Architecture Lab, Network Center,Tsinghua Univ.
> > Beijing, China
> > Home Page: http://netarchlab.tsinghua.edu.cn/~liuby
> > <http://netarchlab.tsinghua.edu.cn/%7Eliuby>
>
>
--
Bingyang Liu
Network Architecture Lab, Network Center,Tsinghua Univ.
Beijing, China
Home Page: http://netarchlab.tsinghua.edu.cn/~liuby
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