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Message-ID: <4571FDE7.9060203@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 17:27:51 -0500
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>
To: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6 driver for Silan SC92031
Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
> From: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
>
> This is a driver for the Silan SC92031/Rsltek 8139D NIC chip. It's a
> rewrite of the vendor 2.4 driver for 2.6, and has been lightly tested
> on a 2.6.17 x86-64 kernel with the Ubuntu patches (as a out-of-tree
> module only).
>
> This chip is found on at least one counterfeit Encore ENL832-TX-RENT
> NIC [1], which came with a mini-CD with the 2.4 driver. A slightly
> older version of the driver was found at [2]. The main difference
> between them is that the newer one has a small bugfix in the RX path,
> a lot of gratuitous renaming of functions, all the printable strings
> changed to show as a "Rsltek 8139D" [sic], and a PCI ID of 8139 instead
> of 2031.
>
> This patch has been modified to apply cleanly on 2.6.19; to run on
> 2.6.17, just add back the struct pt_regs* argument to the interrupt
> handler and to its call at poll_controller(). It compiles on 2.6.19 for
> x86-64 as a module.
>
> [1] See http://www.encore-usa.com/faq.php under ENL832-TX-RENT for more
> information
> [2] Look for SL_LINUX.ZIP (which is really a .tar.gz) at
> http://broadbandforum.in/dataone_Intex_LAN_cardlinux-t4207-s15.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@...arb.net>
Seems like it would be best to modify the existing 8139 driver...
Jeff
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