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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, netdev@oss.sgi.com, dfages@arkoon.net
Subject: Re: Fw: [BUG/PATCH] CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL and SMP
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:39:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F78A691.1040406@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16248.41796.797321.700866@robur.slu.se>

Robert Olsson wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> IMO HW_FLOWCONTROL is now outdated. It has served very well and encouraged 
> people to use for Linux production networking. With a 2 tulip NIC's on a UP 
> system as a typical system. Only tulip has code for it. This option was 
> added by Alexey in 2.1.63 something...


If someone had a NAPI patch for tulip, we could remove HW_FLOWCONTROL 
option altogether :)

	Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2003-09-29 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-29 19:37 Fw: [BUG/PATCH] CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL and SMP Andrew Morton
2003-09-29 21:25 ` Robert Olsson
2003-09-29 21:39   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-09-30 14:45     ` Robert Olsson
2003-10-02 15:31     ` Robert Olsson
2003-10-02 17:47       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-10-02 19:34         ` Andrew Morton
2003-10-03 14:10         ` Robert Olsson
2003-09-30  2:17 ` jamal

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