On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:00 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 09:36:25AM -0700, Steve Sakoman wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Russell King - ARM Linux >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 03:44:53PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: >> >> Gumstix will soon be shipping a variant of their Summit board that >> >> includes an SMSC LAN9221 ethernet interface. This patch provides >> >> support via the smsc911x driver when enabled in kernel config. >> > >> > Does this actually work with the smsc911x driver which is in mainline, >> > or is it dependent on the smsc911x patches from Steve Glendinning? >> >> For the shipping Overo kernel, I build with 2 of Steve's patches, copied >> below. > > That doesn't help answer the question. What we need to know is whether > this patch works alone? If not, do we know for sure that Steve's patches > are going in during the next merge window?
It does not work without the 2 mentioned patches (IRQ's never get handled). I have no idea on the status of Steve's patches re: next merge window. To my eyes, they seem fairly important for a functional driver :-) Steve > If it doesn't work alone _and_ Steve's patches aren't for whatever reason > going in (via the net tree), then this patch should be dropped from the > set. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
