Re: [PATCH-2.4] forcedeth update to 0.50

[Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:50:38PM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> >Since v2.4.33 should be out RSN, my opinion is that applying the 
> >one-liner to fix the bringup problem for now is more prudent..
> >
> > 
> >
> It's attached. Untested, but it should work. Just the relevant hunk from 
> the 0.42 patch.

I will test it tomorrow morning. John might be interested in merging it too,
as I have checked today that RHEL3 was affected by the same problem (rmmod
followed by modprobe).

> But I would disagree with waiting for 2.3.34 for a full backport:
> 0.30 basically doesn't work, thus the update to 0.50 would be a big step 
> forward - it can't be worse that 0.30.

Seconded !
Manfred, if you have some corner cases in mind, are aware of anything which
might sometimes break, or have a few experimental patches to try, I'm OK for
a few tests while I have the machine (it's SMP BTW).

> --
>    Manfred

Cheers,
Willy

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