netdev - Re: r8169 - disable flow-control?

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Message-Id: <1236288547.10409.23.camel@alkisg>
Date:	Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:29:07 +0200
From:	Άλκης Γεωργόπουλος <alkisg@...il.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: r8169 - disable flow-control?

Στις 05-03-2009, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 21:08 +0000, ο/η Ben Hutchings
έγραψε:
> Generally you should be able to control this using ethtool, not a module
> parameter.  However r8169 does not implement this operation yet.

Thanks - I just thought that supporting a module parameter (like e1000's
FlowControl=2) would be a small thing to ask, as opposed to supporting
ethtool.

But of course if ethtool is to be eventually supported by r8169, then
adding a parameter would be redundant.

Kind regards,
Alkis Georgopoulos

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