From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261251AbUBTSw4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:52:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261254AbUBTSw4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:52:56 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:28055 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261251AbUBTSwy (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:52:54 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:45:21 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: Thomas Munck Steenholdt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: pcnet32 link detection patch proposal Message-Id: <20040220104521.4aaabd6e.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <40365368.5020508@tmus.dk> References: <40365368.5020508@tmus.dk> Organization: OSDL X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: +5V?h'hZQPB9kW Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 19:35:20 +0100 Thomas Munck Steenholdt wrote: | Hi Guys! | | A lot of people have been experiencing problems with the pcnet32 nic | driver that | always returns link down on some devices (including the VMware vlance | adapter). | | The patch makes sure that link is always reported as up (in contrast to | always | being rported as down) if the device is not MII capable. Devices that | ARE MII | capable will return whatever mii_link_ok() says. | | Please let be know what you think and possible give me a hint as to how | I can | make sure this fix gets included whereever such a patch should be included! | | Thanks a lot! Hi, There has been some recent pcnet32 driver activity on the netdev mailing list. Try that list. Recent patches have been from Don Fry (brazilnut@us.ibm.com). Mail archives for it are here: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/archive/ -- ~Randy