Re: forcedeth: option to disable 100Hz timer (try 2)

Mikhail Kshevetskiy
2008-09-11T05:38:21Z

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:19:47 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:25:03 -0600 Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > Enabling by
> > default and disabling after a TX done interrupt was received would
> > likely be a better approach
>
> yup, that's far better.

How it will work, if network cable unpluged? This is quite often situation
for laptop with wifi?

>
> > But it's quite likely that at least some of the
> > chipsets that this driver supports don't need this timer nonsense at all
>
> Well yes. If all the chipsets need the timer then there's nothing we
> can do to improve it.
>