[vortex] [CFT] 3c59x.c for 2.2.18-pre

[Andrew Morton]

Roger Williams wrote:
> 
> >>>>> Koos van den Hout <koos@kzdoos.xs4all.nl> writes:
> 
>   > Ok, since I had some troubles before, I torture tested it, and it
>   > failed.  So now you are going to be very intested in 'how' :)
> 
> I've got to weigh in and say that I haven't seen the same sort of
> problems here.
> 
> I've spent a while transferring large files (ISO CD images) back and
> forth between my T20 (3Com 3c556B Laptop Hurricane) and my UltraSparc,
> and don't have any problems averaging > 8.5 MB/s both ways (11 MB/s
> before the T20's IDE HD speed starts to drag it down...).
> 
> I'm using a 2.2.14-5.0 kernel with the 3c59x.c 19Oct00 driver compiled
> in (no point in building it as a module...).

Actually, there may be some point in making it a module - as far as I
know, the driver doesn't recover from a power management resume - it
needs to be unloaded and reloaded.  Are you using suspend/resume?