Re: 2.4: e100 accounting bust for multiple adapters

[Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:59:50 -0800, Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Anyway the solution is simple: modular e100 is borked on 2.4,
>> compiled in is okay.
>
>modular e100 2.X is borked, right? if you have a moment could you try
>the 3.X e100 driver from sourceforge?
>(http://prdownloads.sf.net/e1000) it should work fine on 2.4 and I
>haven't heard any reports of icky stats.

Hi Jesse, 

Couple of compile warnings:
grant@deltree:~/e100-3.5.10/src$ make clean; make CFLAGS_EXTRA=-DE100_NO_NAPI
rm -rf e100.o e100.o e100.o e100.o e100.o e100.7.gz .*cmd .tmp_versions
gcc -DLINUX -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -O2 -pipe -Wall -I/lib/modules/2.4.32-hf32.1x/build/include -I. -DMODVERSIONS -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -include /lib/modules/2.4.32-hf32.1x/build/include/linux/modversions.h -DE100_NO_NAPI   -c -o e100.o e100.c
In file included from /lib/modules/2.4.32-hf32.1x/build/include/linux/spinlock.h:6,
                 from /lib/modules/2.4.32-hf32.1x/build/include/linux/module.h:12,
                 from e100.c:138:
/lib/modules/2.4.32-hf32.1x/build/include/asm/system.h: In function `__set_64bit_var':
/lib/modules/2.4.32-hf32.1x/build/include/asm/system.h:190: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
/lib/modules/2.4.32-hf32.1x/build/include/asm/system.h:190: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules


**************************************************
** e100.o built for 2.4.32-hf32.1x
** SMP               Disabled
**************************************************

I have e100-3.5.10 up now and the stats now look okay.  Is this 
driver update headed for 2.4 kernel inclusion?

Grant.
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