linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet patches

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Message-ID: <20061002162749.GB4546@austin.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:27:49 -0500
From:	linas@...tin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, jeff@...zik.org, akpm@...l.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, James K Lewis <jklewis@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6]: powerpc/cell spidernet ethernet patches

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:40:00PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Am Saturday 30 September 2006 01:05 schrieb Linas Vepstas:
> >
> > Although these patches improve things, I am not
> > satisfied with how this driver behaves, and so
> > plan to do additional work next week.
> >
> 
> I'm not sure if I have missed a patch in here, but I
> don't see anything reintroducing the 'netif_stop_queue'
> that is missing from the transmit path.
> 
> Do you have a extra patch for that?

Unfinished.  There are several ways in which the current 
spider-net driver doesn't do things the way Greg KH's, etal 
book on device drivers recommends. I was planning on combing 
through these this week.

--linas
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