netdev - Re: r8169 driver compatibility with rtl8168 [need confirm]

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Message-ID: <20080227221133.GB17759@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:11:33 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Miroslav Kratochvil <exa.exa@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 driver compatibility with rtl8168 [need confirm]

Miroslav Kratochvil <exa.exa@...il.com> :
[...]
> Well I would be happy if I had "reports", it basically looks like that
> someone complains on IRC and this fixes his problem. No kernel dumps
> and/or logs can be obtained (because of hard freeze). If you wanted
> some information about the machines, please specify what exactly do
> you want to see ("classic" logs like dmesg tell nothing. :( )

It would tell what the version of their kernel is, wether it's 64 bit
or not, etc. It (dmesg/lspci) helps to identify patterns. I don't even
speak of the binary-only stuff that people routinely use.

[...]
> exa@...book ~ $ dmesg |grep RTL8
> [   11.043631] eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc2000002a000,
> 4c:00:10:3b:83:ad, XID 38000000 IRQ 11

Ok.

> ...also, notice that #defined buffer sizes are the only major
> difference between kernel and Realtek's r8168 driver.

Hardly. I have read version 8.004 of Realtek's driver.

Can you try to see if the fix is enough when faced with a stream
of packets from pktgen ? 

-- 
Ueimor
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