Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751438AbWJMBOm (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:14:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751440AbWJMBOm (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:14:42 -0400 Received: from msr4.hinet.net ([168.95.4.104]:15316 "EHLO msr4.hinet.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751438AbWJMBOl (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:14:41 -0400 Message-ID: <00ac01c6ee64$ef637210$2d32fea9@icplus.com.tw> From: "Jesse Huang" To: "Andrew Morton" Cc: , , References: <004301c6eda6$437ac070$2d32fea9@icplus.com.tw> <20061011195540.06b2ef13.akpm@osdl.org> Subject: Re: What is current sundance.c status Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 09:14:30 +0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1807 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1807 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1753 Lines: 59 Ok, I will generate those again with descriptions. Thank you! Best Regards, Jesse Huang. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Morton" To: "Jesse Huang" Cc: ; ; Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:55 AM Subject: Re: What is current sundance.c status On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 10:29:37 +0800 "Jesse Huang" wrote: > Would you tell me what is the current IP100A status? Should I re-generate patches again. Would it put into kernel or not? I'm sitting on a copy of them. I didn't send them to Jeff last time because: sundance-remove-txstartthresh-and-rxearlythresh.patch There's no description of what this patent issue is. sundance-fix-tx-pause-bug-reset_tx-intr_handler.patch There's no description of the bug which got fixed, nor how this patch fixes it. sundance-change-phy-address-search-from-phy=1-to-phy=0.patch There's a (small) possibility that this will break on hardware which _doesn't_ have a phy at address 0. sundance-correct-initial-and-close-hardware-step.patch There's no real description of the bug which is being fixed, nor of how this patch fixes it. sundance-solve-host-error-problem-in-low-performance-embedded.patch No description of what the "host error problem" is, nor of what causes it, nor of how this patch fixes it. So generally these patches are a bit worrying, and it is hard to gauge what their risk factor is. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/