Proposal for a new PCI function call
Hi All, We found recently that the acenic driver for the 3com gigabit ethernet card does not enable 64 bit DMAs. (this is done by setting the appropriate mask in pci_dev->dma_mask). Jes suggested that the appropriate way to fix this would be to create a function like pci_enable_dma64 and then have the driver call that, rather than directly setting this value (a small handful of drivers do this now). I think the function idea would let us do some sanity checking to make sure drivers weren't setting this to 64bit on non-64 bit busses and stuff. Anyhow, so long as no one has any heartburn with this, we'll try to put something together and submit it. I'm not subscribed to the list *yet* (need to get procmail setup), so please leave me in the CC line. Thanks! Steve -- Steve Modica Manager - Networking Drivers Group "Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day, hit him with a fish and he leaves you alone" - me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: ECN is on!
Rogier Wolff wrote: > The "we'll turn it on in February" warning is worth NOTHING in this > situation: February comes and goes. March comes and goes. Everybody > who read the warning will think: Ok, so I must be fine. > > A warning of the form: "ECN will go on as soon as this message clears > the queues" would've been useful, as thousands (hundreds?) suddenly get > nothing anymore. > I agree with this line of thinking. The various academics studying geology have been warning California about "The Big One" for years now, and no one seems to care anymore. I don't think anyone's being lazy and I certainly don't have the information to comment on the size of their butts. So I'd rather just assume they were working very hard on other things (like getting TPC-H benchmarks to run!) Steve -- Steve Modica Manager - Networking Drivers Group "Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day, hit him with a fish and he leaves you alone" - me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: ECN is on!
"David S. Miller" wrote: > > Matti Aarnio writes: > > I am contemplating to periodically turn off the ECN bit to > > let email out, but DaveM has veto there. > > I veto, the whole point of moving to ECN was to make a statement and > get people to fix their kit. > > We will remove these people, that's all. > > Later, > David S. Miller > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perhaps it's none of my business, but it doesn't seem very sporting to just turn something on that breaks stuff and say "you had fair warning". Why not shut it back off, issue a statement saying it works now and will be re-enabled on June 10th or something, and everyone must do thus and so or they will break on that day? Vague things like "it'll be turned on real soon now" or ASAP really mean "never" since admins always have things with real deadlines at the top of their list. Steve -- Steve Modica Manager - Networking Drivers Group "Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day, hit him with a fish and he leaves you alone" - me - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
