netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.26-rc9] r8169: Avoid thrashing PCI conf space on RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER

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Date:	Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:17:29 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	Marcus Sundberg <marcus@...ate.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.26-rc9] r8169: Avoid thrashing PCI conf space on
	RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_20.

Marcus Sundberg <marcus@...ate.com> :
> The magic write to register 0x82 will often cause PCI config space on
> my 8168 (PCI ID 10ec:8168, revision 2. mounted in an LG P300 laptop)
> to be filled with ones during driver load, and thus breaking NIC
> operation until reboot. If it does not happen on first driver load it
> can easily be reproduced by unloading and loading the driver a few
> times.

I have added it at the root of the 'r8169' branch in repository:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/romieu/netdev-2.6.git r8169

The branch is described below (on top of davem's 'next' branch).

The whole serie is available as a patck-kit on top of 2.6.26-rc9 at:

http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.26-rc9/20080710/ 


Diffstat
--------

 drivers/net/r8169.c |  496 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 470 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

Shortlog
--------

Francois Romieu (12):
      r8169: update phy init parameters
      r8169: new phy init parameters for the 8168b
      r8169: shuffle some registers handling around (8168 operation only)
      r8169: add 8168 registers description
      r8169: make room for more specific 8168 hardware start procedure
      r8169: Tx performance tweak
      r8169: sync existing 8168 device hardware start sequences with vendor driver
      r8169: add a new 8168 flavor
      r8169: add a new 8168 flavor (bis)
      r8169: add a new 8168 flavor (ter)
      r8169: change default behavior for mildly identified 8168c chipsets
      r8169: use pci_find_capability for the PCI-E features

Marcus Sundberg (1):
      r8169: avoid thrashing PCI conf space above RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_06

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Ueimor
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