[parisc-linux] quad tulip now not functional in 2.4.20

Ryan Bradetich rbradetich@uswest.net
19 Dec 2002 07:27:32 -0700


Joel,

Just a heads up ... I will not even have a chance to look at this for
a week or two.

Thanks,

- Ryan

On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 23:30, jsoe0708@tiscali.be wrote:
> Hi Grant,
> >
> >On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 04:14:10PM +0100, jsoe0708@tiscali.be wrote:
> >> >I will try to revert tulip driver and advise you.
> >> Well I find some minutes to do this reverse and it works.
> >> Still have to find the bug ?
> >
> >Unfortunately yes.
> >But since the diff is small, it's alot easier.
> >
> >I'm most suspicious about the added checks for length field in eeprom.
> >But I'll review the diff again and tinker with it today or tomorrow.
> >I added that thinking that code only gets executed when there is no
> >phy table (eg built-in). But the add-on cards do have a phy table.
> >
> (well it seems I do mistake when sent following info)
> [also because diff is small]
> In eeprom.c I also suspect:
> line 193: if (ee_data[27] == 0 || ee_data[ee_data[27]] == 0) {
> 
> which I only reverse into:
> if (ee_data[27] == 0) {
> 
> and it works. Unforunately I do not have enough doc to actulay fix the pb.
> May be Ryan could still help us?
> 
> Joel
> 
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