kernel/git/stable/linux.git/drivers/net, branch linux-2.6.21.y

sky2: workaround for lost IRQ

2007-08-04T16:10:26+00:00

This patch restores a couple of workarounds from 2.6.16: * restart transmit moderation timer in case it expires during IRQ routine * default to having 10 HZ watchdog timer. At this point it more important not to hang than to worry about the power cost. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

BNX2: Fix netdev watchdog on 5708.

2007-08-04T16:10:22+00:00

There's a bug in the driver that only initializes half of the context memory on the 5708. Surprisingly, this works most of the time except for some occasional netdev watchdogs when sending a lot of 64-byte packets. This fix is to add the missing code to initialize the 2nd half of the context memory. Update version to 1.5.8.2. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] TG3: Fix link problem on Dell's onboard 5906.

2007-06-11T18:36:49+00:00

The bug is caused by code that always set (TG3_FLAG_USE_MI_INTERRUPT | TG3_FLAG_USE_LINKCHG_REG) on all Dell's onboard devices. With these 2 flags set, the link status is polled by tg3_timer() and will only work when the PHY is set up to interrupt the MAC on link changes. This breaks 5906 because the 5906 PHY does not support TG3_FLAG_USE_MI_INTERRUPT the same as other PHYs. For correctness, only 5701 on Dell systems needs these 2 flags to be set. This change will fix the 5906 problem and will change other Dell devices except 5700 and 5701 to use the more efficient interrupt-driven link changes. Update version to 3.75.2. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] zd1211rw: Add AL2230S RF support

2007-06-11T18:36:47+00:00

ZD1211 appears to be back in production: a number of new devices have been appearing! Some of them are using new radios. This patch adds support for the next generation AL2230 RF chip which has been spotted in a few new devices. [As this patch was too late for 2.6.21, the kernel was modified to reject AL2230S devices because for me and others, the devices silently failed (and this looked like a driver bug). After doing so, a few people reported that AL2230S devices were working correctly for them even before AL2230S support was present. I'd like to propose that we fix both situations by backporting the AL2230S support into 2.6.21-stable] Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] e1000: disable polling before registering netdevice

2007-06-11T18:36:46+00:00

To assure the symmetry of poll enable/disable in up/down, we should initialize the netdevice to be poll_disabled at load time. Doing this after register_netdevice leaves us open to another race, so lets move all the netif_* calls above register_netdevice so the stack starts out how we expect it to be. Signed-off-by: Auke Kok Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Doug Chapman Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] sky2: fix oops on shutdown

2007-05-23T21:32:53+00:00

If the device fails during module startup for some reason like unsupported chip version then the driver would crash dereferencing a null pointer, on shutdown or suspend/resume. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] skge: crash on shutdown/suspend

2007-05-23T21:32:53+00:00

If device fails during module startup for some reason (like unsupported chip version) then driver would crash dereferencing a null pointer, on shutdown or suspend/resume. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] sky2: 88e8071 support not ready

2007-05-23T21:32:52+00:00

The driver is not ready to support 88e8071 chip, it requires several more changes (not done yet). If this chip is present, system will hang on boot. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger

[PATCH] sky2: allow 88E8056

2007-05-23T21:32:52+00:00

It looks like the problems of Gigabyte 88E8056 are unique to that chip motherboard and maybe fixable by EEPROM update. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Signed-off-by: Chris Wright

[PATCH] NETPOLL: Remove CONFIG_NETPOLL_RX

2007-05-23T21:32:47+00:00

Get rid of the CONFIG_NETPOLL_RX option completely since all the dependencies have been removed long ago... Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov Acked-by: Jeff Garzik Acked-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Chris Wright