Re: [Patch 2.6.22.2 ] : drivers/net/via-rhine.c: Offload checksum handling to VT6105M

2008-01-09 Thread Roger Luethi
[top posting because context may be missing otherwise, over a week later] Excellent analysis, Willy. Quite frankly, I am not keen on making this driver any more complex, especially if the gains are marginal at best. VIA Rhine will never be high-performance hardware, and we have too much special ca

Re: VIA Rhine ethernet driver bug (reprise...)

2005-08-26 Thread Roger Luethi
submit a report and/or patch. I believe vda may have been referring to this. I can send you the original thread if it's not in your mail archive. Roger -- cut here ------ From: Roger Luethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: via-rhine + l

Re: Via-Rhine NIC, Via SATA or reiserfs broken, how to tell??

2005-08-14 Thread Roger Luethi
> @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ > #define APC_BPORT_REG 0x30 > > #define APC_REGMASK0x01 > -define APC_BPMASK 0x03 > +#define APC_BPMASK 0x03 Color me skeptical. I've seen some weird bit flips and data corruption; "paramters" to "paramEters" I could buy. But data corru

Re: via-rhine + link loss + autoneg off == trouble

2005-08-13 Thread Roger Luethi
Jeff, can you tune in for a moment? First of all, many thanks to vda for tracking this down, and to everyone else who helped with it. I had a look at my code and at 8139cp (which is one of only a handful of drivers that have been converted to use the generic MII stuff). Turns out 8139cp doesn't

Re: [PATCH] via-rhine.c, wol-bugfix, Kernel 2.6.11.5

2005-03-23 Thread Roger Luethi
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:37:55 +0100, Thomas Skora wrote: > The via-rhine driver in the actual kernel release 2.6.11.5 resets > wake-on-lan-settings of the chip. This leads to the fact, that wol is > disabled after the first reboot. I've attached a little patch, that > fixes the problem. This patch