[BK PATCHES] 2.6.x experimental net driver queue

From: Jeff Garzik <hidden>
Date: 2003-12-07 20:36:26
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Another installment in the net-drivers-2.5-exp queue patchkit.

Summary of new changes:
* r8169 bug fixing (Francois Romieu, RealTek, others)
* Make dev->priv calculation a compile-time constant (eliminates extra 
dereference) (Al Viro)
* More netdev allocation work (Al Viro)
* airo fixes (Javier)
* 8139too minor fixes (OGAWA Hirofumi)
* new nVidia nForce NIC driver "forcedeth" (Manfred Spraul)
* misc net driver fixes/cleanups (Stephen Hemminger)


Summary of patchkit:
* e100 driver rewrite
* new nVidia nForce NIC driver
* r8169 bug fixing
* 8139too NAPI support
* tulip NAPI support
* netconsole / netdump support
* net_device allocation and reference counting work
* e1000 minor updates
* misc bug fixes


Patch:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.0-test11-bk5-netdrvr-exp1.patch.bz2

Full changelog:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.0-test11-bk5-netdrvr-exp1.log

BK repo:
http://gkernel.bkbits.net/net-drivers-2.5-exp

Changelog delta attached.

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