On Sunday 20 August 2006 1:07 pm, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> This driver adds support for the DeLOCK USB ethernet adapter
> and potentially others based on the MosChip MCS7830 chip.
>
> It is based on the usbnet and asix drivers as well as the
> original device driver provided by MosChip, which in turn
> was based on the usbnet driver.
>
> It has been tested successfully on an OHCI, but interestingly
> there seems to be a problem with the mcs7830 when connected to
> the ICH6/EHCI in my thinkpad: it keeps receiving lots of
> broken packets in the RX interrupt.
That is, the "status" polling which you disabled?? If so, please
update this comment ...
> The problem goes away when
> I'm using an active USB hub, so I assume it's not related to
> the device driver, but rather to the hardware.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Looks basically OK to me, although I'd rather see the two patches
you posted on 27-August be merged into it before an upstream merge.
(To use normal MII constants, and handle max size frames.)
> ---
>
> This version incorporates a few cleanups from myself an changes
> based on comments from David Hollis.
He has more experience than I do with respect to these sorts of
real Ethernet adapters and usbnet. :)
Speaking of which ... isnt this driver missing a hook to make
the MII stuff visible through ethtool?
- Dave
> In particular, it now has
>
> - an rx_fixup function that removes an out-of-band data byte
> from each received packet.
> - got rid of the status function, which did not do the right thing
> and is not needed in this driver.
> - has a working set_multicast function, although that one always
> needs to set allmulticast mode in order to get the chip to
> receive any frames.
> - doesn't use a private mutex in its mii functions, that functionality
> is added in a separate patch to usbnet.
>
> Please merge the driver in 2.6.19!
>
> drivers/usb/net/Kconfig | 8
> drivers/usb/net/Makefile | 1
> drivers/usb/net/mcs7830.c | 474 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 3 files changed, 483 insertions(+)
>
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