[patch 0/4] 2.6.5-rc2-mm5 - r8169 queue

There are a few (hopefully) harmless things in the local queue that I'd
appreciate to go mainline before the second round of r8169 changes.
The patches are diffed against 2.6.5-rc2-mm5 and should apply cleanly to
the -netdev serie.

- r8169-ethtool-introduction.patch
- r8169-missing-static.patch
- r8169-maintainer.patch
- r8169-dma-api-update.patch

Despite its limited performance, #3/4 does not work too bad.

The patch I provided today on l-k includes a small change which could
improve performance. If Daniel Egger is satisfied with it, a patch for
the adequate changes will follow.

--
Ueimor

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:36:04 +0200
Francois Romieu [off-list ref] wrote:

There are a few (hopefully) harmless things in the local queue that I'd
appreciate to go mainline before the second round of r8169 changes.

Do you have any plans to convert it to use DAC?  

I feel a bit uncomfortable with using the IOMMU on x86-64 for gigabit
ethernet because it would be very easy to overflow it at these bandwidths. 
DAC would be much safer.

-Andi