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Message-Id: <20090518.192500.266612299.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 19:25:00 -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: Thu, 14 May 2009 23:46:05 +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 v6.009.00 driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
> Tested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.de>
> Cc: Edward Hsu <edward_hsu@...ltek.com.tw>
Francois, you say later in this thread that you have a new
version of this patch coming. Is that coming soon?
I'm holding off on the first one until you submit the new
version of this second one.
Thanks.
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