On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:02:52 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I am not keen on patches that make via-rhine more of a special case even if
> > it was safe now; next thing you know generic_mii_ioctl is changed in a way
> > that breaks the only driver that foolishly made assumptions about the
> > s
Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
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> The other drivers should be fixed as well. Phy access with irq's disabled
> is not good. The hardware I checked takes 100's of usecs to do one read
> transaction.
Yep, 802.3 allows it. :o|
It's surprizing that the low latency squadron has not compl
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:47:31 +0200
Roger Luethi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:40:18 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > The right thing to do is get rid of the locking in via_rhine:netdev_ioctl
> > and push the locking down into mdio_read, mdio_write.
>
> As I said before, a
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:40:18 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The right thing to do is get rid of the locking in via_rhine:netdev_ioctl
> and push the locking down into mdio_read, mdio_write.
As I said before, a dozen other network drivers do the exact same thing --
they call generic_mii_ioctl ri
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:26:43 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > I wonder if low latency for ancient Rhine-I chips is worth the trouble.
>
> IIRC, the point was that mdelay was getting called in interrupt
> context and causing ugly messages to show-up in dmesg.
I suppose the patch back then was to
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:26:43 -0400
"John W. Linville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:39:46PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:49:10 +0100, Marco Berizzi wrote:
> > > Hello evebody.
> > > I get this error on linux vanilla 2.6.16
> > > with via_rhine mod
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:39:46PM +0200, Roger Luethi wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:49:10 +0100, Marco Berizzi wrote:
> > Hello evebody.
> > I get this error on linux vanilla 2.6.16
> > with via_rhine module loaded when
> > I run mii-tool:
>
> That was caused by a recent change that replaced a
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:49:10 +0100, Marco Berizzi wrote:
> Hello evebody.
> I get this error on linux vanilla 2.6.16
> with via_rhine module loaded when
> I run mii-tool:
That was caused by a recent change that replaced an mdelay with msleep.
netdev_ioctl and friends (ethtool calls, too) are kno
Hello evebody.
I get this error on linux vanilla 2.6.16
with via_rhine module loaded when
I run mii-tool:
cheduling while atomic: mii-tool/0x0001/923
[] schedule+0x632/0x640
[] schedule_timeout+0x57/0xb0
[] process_timeout+0x0/0x10
[] msleep+0x28/0x30
[] rhine_disable_linkmon+0xab/0x130 [via
