Re: [PATCH] Updated Olympic Driver

mike_phillips@urscorp.com
Wed, 18 Apr 2001 12:29:35 -0400


Jeff,

Thanks for the comments. This patch has been hanging too long already, the
drivers should be updated as given and I'll work up all the fixes and
another patch.

>> + sisr=readl(olympic_mmio+SISR_RR) ; /* Read & Reset sisr */

> you should also check for 0xFFFFFFFF, which will happen if the hardware
> disappears...

We catch it in the Adapter Check and gracefully exit.

>> struct olympic_tx_status
olympic_tx_status_ring[OLYMPIC_TX_RING_SIZE];

> With PCI DMA you (theoretically) never pass any members of your private
> struct directly to the chip. thus, either your comment or code is
> wrong...

On the cards to completely remove these structures from the private struct
and allocate them in the driver.

All other comments will be incorporated.

Mike

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