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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: Question about way that NICs deliver packets to the kernel
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:12:49 +0200
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Junchang Wang <junchangwang@gmail.com> :
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> 2) Why does r8169 bias towards the first approach even if it support both ?

It is a simple, straightforward fix against a 8169 hardware bug.

See commit c0cd884af045338476b8e69a61fceb3f34ff22f1.

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Ueimor