Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 03 Aug 2006 14:43:37 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -rt DO NOT APPLY] Fix for tg3 networking lockup | | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:04:55 +0100
> Probably. I have an NC6000 with a tg3 and have never experienced > link failure problems, even under -rt.
And note that the "poke the chip N times a second to avoid lockup" issue only matters on very very old tg3 chips.
Therefore I think Ted fixed his problem by accident, as very few people in the world actually have tg3 chips old enough to need that periodic poking. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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