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7 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Bill Paul
6c70e5b472 Tweak the vr_start() and vr_rxeof() routines a little to improve
performance and reliability a little. There was a condition before
where transmission would stall during periods of heavy traffic
exchange between two hosts. Also set the 'want interrupt' bit in
receive descriptor control words.
1999-01-10 18:51:49 +00:00
Bill Paul
57ff492d3e Minor bug: in the case where allocating a fresh mbuf for the receive ring
fails, we need to set the descriptor status word so that the 'OWN' bit
is set again so that the chip can reuse it. Previously, this wasn't being
done.
1999-01-03 02:05:21 +00:00
Bill Paul
d482d37e81 The VIA Rhine appears to be yet another chip that always includes the
ethernet CRC in received frames and has no option to turn this behavior
off. Trim the CRC off manually in vr_rxeof().
1998-12-24 18:03:17 +00:00
Matthew Dillon
2cbe36f725 probe function changed from returning char * to const char *. 1998-12-14 06:37:37 +00:00
Archie Cobbs
f1d19042b0 The "easy" fixes for compiling the kernel -Wunused: remove unreferenced static
and local variables, goto labels, and functions declared but not defined.
1998-12-07 21:58:50 +00:00
Bill Paul
f5c444e19e Add sanity check to foo_start() routines: in the unlikely (though
apparently possible) event that the transmit start routine is
called with and empty if_snd queue, bail out instead of dereferencing
unilitialized transmit list pointers and panicking.
1998-12-05 02:21:44 +00:00
Bill Paul
726ff6a158 An early Christmas present: add driver support for a whole bunch of
PCI fast ethernet adapters, plus man pages.

if_pn.c: Netgear FA310TX model D1, LinkSys LNE100TX, Matrox FastNIC 10/100,
         various other PNIC devices

if_mx.c: NDC Communications SOHOware SFA100 (Macronix 98713A), various
         other boards based on the Macronix 98713, 98713A, 98715, 98715A
         and 98725 chips

if_vr.c: D-Link DFE530-TX, other boards based on the VIA Rhine and
         Rhine II chips (note: the D-Link and certain other cards
         that actually use a Rhine II chip still return the PCI
         device ID of the Rhine I. I don't know why, and it doesn't
         really matter since the driver treats both chips the same
         anyway.)

if_wb.c: Trendware TE100-PCIE and various other cards based on the
         Winbond W89C840F chip (the Trendware card is identical to
         the sample boards Winbond sent me, so who knows how many
         clones there are running around)

All drivers include support for ifmedia, BPF and hardware multicast
filtering.

Also updated GENERIC, LINT, RELNOTES.TXT, userconfig and
sysinstall device list.

I also have a driver for the ASIX AX88140A in the works.
1998-12-04 18:01:24 +00:00