Re: [PATCH 2.6.30-rc4] r8169: avoid losing MSI interrupts

From: Francois Romieu
Date: Tue Aug 25 2009 - 19:08:00 EST


David Dillow <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> :
[...]
> I wouldn't object if you did it, but I don't have time for it right now.
> And it may make Francois's life harder when he does his periodic sweep
> of the vendor driver, looking for differences.

This part of Realtek's driver(s) is not too tricky (I wonder if some code is
there by design or accident but it is a different story).

I do not feel safe with the TxDescUnavail bit : the driver does not
explicitely do anything to handle it but the behavior of the driver
can change depending on it. :o/

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Ueimor
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