Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:31:41 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: forcedeth: option to disable 100Hz timer (try 2) |
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On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 23:34:35 +0400 Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On some hardware no TX done interrupts are generated, thus special > 100Hz timer interrupt is required to handle this situation properly. > Other device do not require that timer interrupt feature. > > Forcedeth has a DEV_NEED_TIMERIRQ flag to mark the broken devices. > Unfortunately, nobody know the actual list of broken devices, so all > device has this flag on. Other problem, this flag is not user visible, > so the kernel recompilation is required to disable timer interrupts and > test a device. > > This patch add a "disable_timerirq" option to disable interrupt > timer mentioned above. This may be extremely useful for laptop users.
Why do you feel that the timer-based completions need to be disabled? Is it causing some problem?
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