Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:17:16 +1000 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] atl1: disable TSO by default |
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 03:58:45PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > > The atl1 driver was merged in the spring of 2007, so I'm not sure I > > consider it new (but your kernel development time horizon is undoubtedly > > *way* longer than mine, so you may indeed consider it new). It was > > basically a vendor driver that we modified to conform to kernel coding > > standards. It started life, we believe, as pretty much a clone of the > > e1000 driver circa 2005, so that's likely where it's use of LLTX > > came from. > > You'll have to forgive us, as we often have a knee jerk reaction > to seeing LLTX anywhere :-)
Heh, it's like seeing a fly in your soup :)
However, this does seem to be proliferating to some extent although I picked on the wrong driver. The one I saw that was new is actually drivers/net/atl1e which seems to have copied the same code across.
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