From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: romieu@fr.zoreil.com
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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] r8169: allow true forced mode setting
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 14:32:58 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090519.143258.172883145.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090519204648.GB6346@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 22:46:48 +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 r8169 v6.010.00 driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
> Tested-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-19 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-14 21:46 [PATCH 2/2] r8169: allow true forced mode setting Francois Romieu
2009-05-16 12:50 ` Jean Delvare
2009-05-16 19:57 ` Xose Vazquez Perez
2009-05-17 10:34 ` Francois Romieu
2009-05-19 2:25 ` David Miller
2009-05-19 20:46 ` Francois Romieu
2009-05-19 21:32 ` David Miller [this message]
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