From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030201AbWFVMza (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:55:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751786AbWFVMza (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:55:30 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:54479 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751783AbWFVMz3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:55:29 -0400 Subject: Re: Memory corruption in 8390.c ? From: Alan Cox To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: David Miller , herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, snakebyte@gmx.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1150976016.3120.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20060622023029.GA6156@gondor.apana.org.au> <20060622.012609.25474139.davem@davemloft.net> <20060622083037.GB26083@gondor.apana.org.au> <20060622.013440.97293561.davem@davemloft.net> <1150976063.15275.146.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1150976016.3120.19.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:10:43 +0100 Message-Id: <1150981843.15275.163.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ar Iau, 2006-06-22 am 13:33 +0200, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven: > > The 8390 change (corrected version) also makes 8390.c faster so should > > be applied anyway, > > 8390 is such a race monster that a few cycles matter a lot! :-) There are generic 8390 clones for 100Mbit. I'm not suggesting its a good idea but people did it. Alan