From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422637AbWJLCz4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:55:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422741AbWJLCz4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:55:56 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:43997 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422637AbWJLCzy (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:55:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 19:55:40 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: "Jesse Huang" Cc: , , Subject: Re: What is current sundance.c status Message-Id: <20061011195540.06b2ef13.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <004301c6eda6$437ac070$2d32fea9@icplus.com.tw> References: <004301c6eda6$437ac070$2d32fea9@icplus.com.tw> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) 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 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.