Re: Tulip RaQ2 64 Bit Fix

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> wrote:
>
> 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".
> 

Might help to cc him.

Look, we really don't care who writes the patch.