netdev - Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: Allow the driver to be used on PA RISC C8000 workstation

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Date:	Mon, 27 Jun 2011 15:33:43 -0400
From:	Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
To:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
Cc:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...il.com>,
	Guy Martin <gmsoft@...icoman.be>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"kyle@...artin.ca" <kyle@...artin.ca>,
	"e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
	<e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	"linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" <mikulas@...ax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH] e1000: Allow the driver to be used on PA
 RISC C8000 workstation

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de> wrote:
> Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
>> Am Freitag, 18. März 2011, 17:39:57 schrieb Rolf Eike Beer:
>> > Am Mittwoch, 2. März 2011, 21:19:24 schrieb Jesse Brandeburg:
>> > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Guy Martin <gmsoft@...icoman.be> wrote:
>> > > > Hi Jeff,
>> > > >
>> > > > Any luck getting this into mainline ?
>> > >
>> > > Hi Guy, sorry for the delay,
>> > > We haven't been able to get our contacts in HP to give us a decent
>> > > response so far, we are following up with them to see whats up.  We
>> > > have not lost the patch and are still tracking it internally.
>> > >
>> > > Give us a couple more weeks if that is okay and we should be able to
>> > > settle this by then.
>> >
>> > I wonder what exactly you are waiting for? This is a sanity check that
>> > we
>> > disable, so no working systems could get broken by this. And every
>> > single
>> > C8000 seems to be affected by this and is working fine with that patch.
>> > So maybe people at HP might have a clue _why_ this is screwed, but
>> > until then I don't see any point in waiting.
>> >
>> > So please just add my tested-by and push this upstream soon. Since this
>> > is basically a hardware quirk I would like to get this into stable also
>> > so we may run vanilla 2.6.38.1 or something like that on C8000.
>> >
>> > Tested-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
>>
>> For the netdev folks: it's this patch we are talking about
>>
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-parisc/msg03091.html
>>
>> I would love to see that someone finally picks this up and pushes this
>> upstream, CC stable. This is absolutely annoying as it breaks every time
>> anyone touches the kernel on one of this machines.
>>
>> Jeff, David, James: can you please make a decision of who takes this and
>> then just do it?
>
> Ping?

Ping indeed. Waiting as if HP is going to say "yes, we fucked that up.
Go ahead with the patch." is silly.
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