Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:01:33 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 8139too Interframe Gap Time |
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Rene Herman wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > in drivers/net/8139too.c, we have: > > /* Check this value: the documentation for IFG contradicts ifself. */ > RTL_W32 (TxConfig, rtl8139_tx_config); > > I see that in older versions of the documentation there indeed were some > contradictions but the current version 1.4: > > ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/rtl8139abcd8130810xseries/rtl8139cspec_1.4.pdf > > clears it up and it seems 8139too guessed wrong. I have verified that > realtek's own windows 9x driver agrees with the documentation. > > No equipment to actually measure the IFG and no difference in network > behaviour shows up on a good 100Mbit-FD switch connected LAN, but it > does on an el-cheapo 10Mbit-HD hub connected LAN. Without attached > patch the packet and collision counters are basically the same; with > patch, the latter is only some 70% of the former. Hurray!
Nice!
I'm glad somebody finally got around to doing this :)
I'll give this some testing (and put it in Andrew's -mm for that reason as well), and then apply it.
Thanks,
Jeff
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