Re: 2.6.12 breaks 8139cp

[Nick Warne]

> It seems that whatever is causing the bug i'm seeing was a change that 
> involved the network driver/interrupt subsystem and not actually the 
> 8139too driver, this was done at around 2.6.3-2.6.4.   A NAPI patch that 
> was introduced at that time basically reverted the interrupt function 
> and removed the poll functions from the driver (via not enabling napi in 
> Kconfig).

Ummm.  I was involved in this.  Here is the 'final' post after Mr Hirofumi 
found the cause of my issues:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.3/1709.html

But I looked at what he said and found the real problem on my system (after 
all that):

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0403.1/1537.html

Nick
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