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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: avoid TX timeout when stopping device
Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 14:37:43 +0200
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Le mercredi 12 mai 2010 =C3=A0 14:19 +0300, Eilon Greenstein a =C3=A9cr=
it :

> Eric,
>=20
> I thought that your 1ae5dc342ac78d7a42965fd1f323815f6f5ef2c1 commit t=
ook
> care of trans_start, right? Well, actually the commit that made it
> possible to remove the trans_start manipulation.

Its only part of the (huge) job, started last year with 10GB and GB
nics.

My intent was to take care of not touching dev->trans_start in
start_xmit() method, then take care of other cases later.