Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > This patch was developed here to resolve a number of eepro100 issues we
> > were seeing. I'd like to get people to try this on their eepro100 chips and
> > beat on it for a while.
>
> Works for me. Its the first eepro100 driver that wont choke eventually on
> my i810 board and its also the only one that will recover the board after
> a soft boot when it had previously started spewing errors
This patch got me thinking about net driver ring sizes in general. When
you are talking thousands of packets per second at 100 mbit, a larger
ring size than the average 32-64 seems to make sense too.
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