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From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
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To: Adam Kropelin <akropel1@rochester.rr.com>, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5: ewrk3 cli/sti removal by VDA
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 14:55:58 +0000
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On 19 October 2002 02:13, Adam Kropelin wrote:
> Below is a patch from Denis Vlasenko
> <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> which removes cli/sti in the
> ewrk3 driver. It tests out fine here with SMP & preempt.

Thanks. SMP & preempt testing is most important.

> Applies against 2.5.34 + ewrk3-ethtool patch. Also applies without
> ethtool patch with some offsets.
>
> (Denis, I took the liberty of forwarding this to Jeff since it works
> fine for me and the driver is pretty much useless without it. Scream
> if you don't want it applied...)

No problem.

I just want drivers to be _thoroughly_ tested while we fix them since
a flaky driver can spoil all efforts spent on making bulletproof core
kernel.

What methods do folks use to break NIC drivers?
It would be nice to have crash-my-nic toolset :-)

BTW, I wanted to learn about pktgen, but there's no pktgen in 2.5
(don't know why).
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vda
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