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From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Subject: Re: [3.8-rc] regression: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 01:46:35 +0100
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J=C3=B6rg Otte <jrg.otte@gmail.com> :
[...]
> To Summarize: Two net-regressions where introduced in v3.8 (driver r8=
169):
>=20
> 1) NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0 (r8169): transmit queue 0 timed out
> was introduced by commit
> e0c075577965d1c01b30038d38bf637b027a1df3
> ("r8169: enable ALDPS for power saving")

Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com> authored it. You should ask him
why commit e0c075577965d1c01b30038d38bf637b027a1df3 sometimes chokes
with the 8168evl.=20

And you can ask him if there is a chance that the non-8168evl that are
handled by the patch (mis-)behave the same too.

--=20
Ueimor