netdev - Re: [PATCH] SMSC LAN911x and LAN921x vendor driver

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Message-ID: <459D126F.5080300@freescale.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:42:55 +0100
From:	Pierre TARDY <pierre.tardy@...escale.com>
To:	Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...c.com>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ian Saturley <ian.saturley@...c.com>,
	Bahadir Balban <bahadir.balban@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SMSC LAN911x and LAN921x vendor driver

Steve Glendinning wrote:
> Attached is a driver for SMSC's LAN911x and LAN921x families of embedded
> ethernet controllers.  There is an existing smc911x driver in the tree;
> this is intended to replace it.
>
> This driver contains workarounds for all known hardware issues, and has
> been tested on all flavours of the chip on multiple architectures.
>
> Dustin McIntire (the author of the smc911x driver) has expressed his
> support for switching to this driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...c.com>
>   
This patch has just been tested on my Freescale mx31 board, with a 
smsc9117, and Linux version 2.6.16.19.
I agree to include it in mainstream.
old smc911x is restricted to one architecture (PXA) and one chip (9118).

Acked-by: Pierre Tardy <tardyp@...il.com>




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Pierre Tardy

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