Re: tulip driver in 2.1.11* - 2.1.21 is broken - new driver

David S. Miller (davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 00:41:33 -0700


From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch>
Date: 15 Sep 1998 09:34:34 +0200

David> More recently the current issue, 0.99f was bad for a lot of
David> people. Total silence from him on the matter. Now that I've
David> pointed out the issue, how long until we see an attempted fix
David> from him? If he is too busy, should I do it? Should you?
David> Sometimes when this is done he acts like an animal who has had
David> his territory invaded :-)

There is actually a save_flags();cli(); {} restore_flags() pair in
start_xmit() in the current 1.03 driver found at Donald's ftp
server. Personally I would of course prefer to see it use a
spin_lock_irqsave() but thats a different story ;-)

Jes, pay attention, version 0.99f was the 3c59x driver not the Tulip
one :-)

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@dm.cobaltmicro.com

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