[ from advogato, entry #12 ]

Major enema of the device init/teardown code.. now we theoretically handle hotplug (and thus, cardbus), as well as much easier-to-follow driver code.

SMP-revisited. I started to merge the "good" bits from the smp-2 patch I released a while back. Now the diff is a good deal smaller, and as soon as the next prerelease goes out, so does smp-4, which is a subtle functional change over -2. I guess I'll find out soon enough if it can handle a full-bore ping flood without any corruption. Hopefully the rx path won't step on the tx path's toes, even without disabling interrupts.

And in other news, it looks like shaftnet is off the air, after its local network went haywire with >95% packet loss from the outside. The damn thing won't even respond to an arp request. The way I look at things; either shaft was responsible for the network going boom or the network made its Ethernet card go boom. Hopefully the latter, because that would mean a simple kick would repair everything. I'm only 558 miles away from being able to fix it myself, and my ex-boss taking care of it for me can't be located right now. Yuck.

I now have six potted plants in my apartment. Hopefully I'll turn out to have a green thumb..