Re: Tulip RaQ2 64 Bit Fix

[Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 08:36:55PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >Jeff, can you please suggest how this patch should be altered to make it
> >acceptable?
> 
> Answer hasn't changed since this was last discussed:  sleep, rather than 
> delay for an extra-long time.  That's the only hurdle for the tulip 
> patches you keep resending.
> 
> Francois Romieu even had an untested patch that attempted this, somewhere.

Yes, he implemented a workqueue to invoke tulip_select_media().
        http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/21/69

His patch didn't deal with the same issue in tulip_restart_rxtx()
as noted here:
        http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/5/22/6

Otherwise, it was mostly ok - just some other nits.
Last reply on that thread was Oct 2005: "an updated version is cooking".

hth,
grant