From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261354AbVBVXwE (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:52:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261341AbVBVXwE (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:52:04 -0500 Received: from electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com ([213.41.134.224]:10900 "EHLO fr.zoreil.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261337AbVBVXwA (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2005 18:52:00 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 00:48:10 +0100 From: Francois Romieu To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com, Jon Mason , Richard Dawe , Jeff Garzik Subject: [rft/update] r8169 changes in 2.6.x Message-ID: <20050222234810.GA17303@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Organisation: Land of Sunshine Inc. Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org An update of the r8169 driver is available for the 2.6.11-rc4 kernel. Noticable changes: - better handling of PHY as found on Acer Aspire 1524WLMi (Richard Dawe); - fix a bug triggered when the device is brought down then up again; - avoid a few lost/screaming interrupts; - closed a race when a change of mtu is issued during network activity; - fix VLAN on big-endian hosts (is someone using it apart from me ?); - merge relevant changes from Realtek's 2.2 driver. If it worked for you before, you should not notice anything. Patch against 2.6.10-rc4: - http://www.fr.zoreil.com/~romieu/misc/20050222-2.6.11-rc4-r8169.c-test.patch Patch-script directory: - http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.11-rc4/r8169/ Patch-script tarball: - http://www.fr.zoreil.com/linux/kernel/2.6.x/2.6.11-rc4/r8169-blob.tar.bz2 The 2.4.x backport will be updated later this week. As usual, success/regression reports will be welcome. Thank you for your attention. -- Ueimor