[Devel] atl1 (Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet) driver & TCP weirdness

[Vasily Averin]

On 01/31/2011 07:03 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> Vasily,
>
> I am impressed by your handling of my little problem report - your
> attention, the time you're putting into this, and the status updates.
> This exceeds my expectations (as a user of OpenVZ).  Thank You!

It's because of you are might and greatest Solar Designer! :)

> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 06:55:27PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
>> I've recompiled driver from sources (atl1-1.2.40.3) and it works well on
>> 2.6.18-028stab083.1 kernel.
>
> Do you mean that the problem went away with this recompile?

No, I've used sources taken from vendor.
I believe we have ported  this driver incorrectly.

> That's curious.  What does this tell us?  Some issue with driver source
> code merging with other patches in your released RHEL5 branch kernels?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Alexander
>