linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] r8152: reduce the number of Tx

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Message-Id: <20140831.213823.1615189696117720659.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 31 Aug 2014 21:38:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	hayeswang@...ltek.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, nic_swsd@...ltek.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] r8152: reduce the number of Tx

From: Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 02:46:38 +0000

>  From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net] 
> [...]
>> This driver has a loop that iterates MAX_TX times to initialize both
>> the RX and TX buffers.
>> 
>> So if they are not equal, it can't possibly work.
> 
> Excuse me. I don't find that the "RTL8152_MAX_TX" is used by
> rx buffer. The rx buffer only use "RTL8152_MAX_RX". Although 
> the tx buffer size is determined by "rx_buf_sz", the tx buffers
> are independent of rx buffers.

Ok, but that is really confusing code.
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