[BK PATCHES] 2.6.x experimental net driver updates

Another edition of net driver updates.

Summary of new changes:
* revert skfddi janitorial patches.  no skfddi changes are included in 
this patchkit anymore.  Stephen Hemminger has a much better skfddi patch 
which obsoleted the already-merged skfddi changes.
* atmel wireless SKB leak fix
* 3c574_cs deadlock fix
* bonding destruction fix
* more work from Al making net_device allocation dynamic and sane 
(including fast, const-offset private structure allocation for drivers)
* sk98lin update from vendor
* TG3 update from DaveM
* new pc200syn WAN driver from WAN maintainer Krzysztof Halasa
* r8169 fixes from Francois Romieu


Summary of patchkit:
* new e100 driver (rewritten from scratch)
* new nVidia nForce NIC driver
* new pc200syn WAN driver

* tg3 bug fixes
* r8169 major bug fixes
* e1000 minor updates / fixes
* sk98lin vendor updates / fixes
* misc bug fixes

* 8139too NAPI support
* tulip NAPI support

* netconsole / netdump support
* net_device allocation and reference counting work


Patch:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.0-test11-bk11-netdrvr-exp1.patch.bz2

Full changelog:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.0-test11-bk11-netdrvr-exp1.log

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

Changelog delta attached.

Hi Jeff,

I got the following compile error when trying to compile e100 statically 
into a kernel using gcc 2.95:

<--  snip  -->

...
  CC      drivers/net/e100.o
drivers/net/e100.c:170: parse error before `int'
drivers/net/e100.c:170: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration 
of `module_param'
drivers/net/e100.c:170: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
drivers/net/e100.c:170: warning: data definition has no type or storage 
class
make[2]: *** [drivers/net/e100.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [drivers/net] Error 2
make: *** [drivers] Error 2

<--  snip  -->

cu
Adrian

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Adrian Bunk wrote:

Hi Jeff,

I got the following compile error when trying to compile e100 statically 
into a kernel using gcc 2.95:

This is fixed in the updated patch:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.0-test11-bk11-netdrvr-exp2.patch.bz2

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.0-test11-bk11-netdrvr-exp2.log

Thanks,

	Jeff

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:38:35PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Adrian Bunk wrote:

quoted

Hi Jeff,

I got the following compile error when trying to compile e100 statically 
into a kernel using gcc 2.95:

This is fixed in the updated patch:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.0-test11-bk11-netdrvr-exp2.patch.bz2

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/patchkits/2.6/2.6.0-test11-bk11-netdrvr-exp2.log

Thanks for the quick answer.

I can confirm that it's fxed now.

Thanks,

	Jeff

cu
Adrian

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