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Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2006 23:40:42 -0700 From: David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> To: arnd@...db.de Cc: support@...chip.com, supermihi@....de, linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, dhollis@...ehollis.com Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH] driver for mcs7830 (aka DeLOCK) USB ethernet adapter > No, the receive errors are independent from the status interrupt. > I have now got confirmation by another user that they also > happen on a different thinkpad when not using a USB hub, but > with a hub everything seems fine. Odd. Hardware issues, I guess ... I'd like to understand better just why high speed peripherals are acting up on root hubs. Maybe it's flakey motherboards ... > > Speaking of which ... isnt this driver missing a hook to make > > the MII stuff visible through ethtool? > > hmm, I wasn't aware that ethtool does this. I did check that mii-tool > works though. Then my main concern is gone. > Going through the ethtool operations, I think that it should be > possible to implement a few of them, including ETHTOOL_GREGS, > ETHTOOL_GEEPROM, ETHTOOL_SEEPROM, ETHTOOL_NWAY_RST and ETHTOOL_GPERMADDR. > Do you think these should be done? I've not got much use for those, but maybe the netdev folk would care. That's probably not enough to hold up any merge. - Dave -- VGER BF report: U 0.499998 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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