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