Re: [PATCH] 8139too Interframe Gap Time

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Rene Herman wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> in drivers/net/8139too.c, we have:
> 
>    /* Check this value: the documentation for IFG contradicts ifself. */
>    RTL_W32 (TxConfig, rtl8139_tx_config);
> 
> I see that in older versions of the documentation there indeed were some
> contradictions but the current version 1.4:
> 
> ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/rtl8139abcd8130810xseries/rtl8139cspec_1.4.pdf
> 
> clears it up and it seems 8139too guessed wrong. I have verified that
> realtek's own windows 9x driver agrees with the documentation.
> 
> No equipment to actually measure the IFG and no difference in network
> behaviour shows up on a good 100Mbit-FD switch connected LAN, but it
> does on an el-cheapo 10Mbit-HD hub connected LAN. Without attached
> patch the packet and collision counters are basically the same; with
> patch, the latter is only some 70% of the former. Hurray!


Nice!

I'm glad somebody finally got around to doing this :)

I'll give this some testing (and put it in Andrew's -mm for that reason 
as well), and then apply it.

Thanks,

	Jeff