From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] r8169: allow true forced mode setting Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 19:25:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090518.192500.266612299.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090514214605.GB6374@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: vsteenhoute@novell.com, jdelvare@suse.de, tbm@cyrius.com, xose.vazquez@gmail.com, ivecera@redhat.com, edward_hsu@realtek.com.tw, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: romieu@fr.zoreil.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:34963 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752925AbZESCZC (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 22:25:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090514214605.GB6374@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Francois Romieu 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 > Tested-by: Jean Delvare > Cc: Edward Hsu 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.