netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] r8169: allow true forced mode setting

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2009 14:32:58 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	romieu@...zoreil.com
Cc:	vsteenhoute@...ell.com, jdelvare@...e.de, tbm@...ius.com,
	xose.vazquez@...il.com, ivecera@...hat.com,
	edward_hsu@...ltek.com.tw, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] r8169: allow true forced mode setting

From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 22:46:48 +0200

> Due to mostly historic reasons, including a lack of reliability
> of the link handling (especially with the older 8169), the
> current r8169 driver emulates forced mode setting by limiting
> the advertised modes.
> 
> With this change the driver allows real 10/100 forced mode
> settings on the 8169 and 8101/8102.
> 
> Original idea by Vincent Steenhoute. The RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_03
> tweak was extracted from Realtek's r8169 v6.010.00 driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
> Tested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!
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