On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:31:08AM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-25 01:45]: > > Cc: Valerie Henson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > [akpm: this is a previously-nacked patch, but the problem is real]
ia64 and parisc need the changes to tulip_select_media() too. > And, for the record, Jeff's suggestion as to how to rework the patch: > > | Answer hasn't changed since this was last discussed: sleep, rather than > | delay for an extra-long time. That's the only hurdle for the tulip > | patches you keep resending. > > | Francois Romieu even had an untested patch that attempted this, > | somewhere. > > Now we just need someone to complete this work... Kyle McMartin has the work queue patch merged into the cvs.parisc-linux.org CVS tree. It would be easiest to accept this patch and then add the tulip work queue patch next. Note that the work queue does NOT solve all of the "spin delay with interrupts blocked" problems. tulip_stop_rxtx() polls for nearly as long and tulip_select_media(). thanks, grant > -- > Martin Michlmayr > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
