Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:05:08 +0200 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.26-rc9] r8169: Avoid thrashing PCI conf space on RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_20. |
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Marcus Sundberg <marcus@ingate.com> : > The magic write to register 0x82 will often cause PCI config space on > my 8168 (PCI ID 10ec:8168, revision 2. mounted in an LG P300 laptop) > to be filled with ones during driver load, and thus breaking NIC > operation until reboot. If it does not happen on first driver load it > can easily be reproduced by unloading and loading the driver a few > times.
Nice. Thanks.
[...] > --- > The magic write is not present in the r8168 driver from RealTek either. > Does anyone know what it's supposed to do?
No idea. It is not used in the 8101/8102 driver either.
-- Ueimor
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