On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 12:51:35PM -0700, Michael Chan wrote: > John W. Linville wrote: > > > Add the AMD 8131 bridge to the list of chipsets that reorder writes. > > > > Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hi John, > > The latest tg3 driver in 2.6.18 has a recovery mechanism to detect > and recover from this kind of reordering problem. I suppose we can > add this chipset now if we're reasonably sure that it is reordering > MMIO. But it will be nice to actually see the recovery mechanism in > action catching this chipset.
Obviously it is between you and Dave to decide what is best. We are carrying this patch in RHEL4 at the moment, so I didn't want to hold it back from upstream. If you think you have a better solution then "it's on you"... :-) John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
