Francois Romieu wrote:
The 8169/8110SC currently announces itself as:
[...]
eth0: RTL8169sc/8110sc at 0x........, ..:..:..:..:..:.., XID 18000000 IRQ ..
^^^^^^^^
It uses RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_05 and this part of the changeset can cut
its performance by a factor of 2~2.5 as reported by Timo.
(the driver includes code just before the hunk to write the ChipCmd
register when mac_version == RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_0[1-4])
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Timo Jantunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm applying this, but, please do copy Edward @ RealTek on patches like
this, as a courtesy if nothing else.
Sometimes the kernel development process can be a bit impenetrable for
newcomers, and I'd like to give as much visibility as possible to the
process for the hardware vendor.
Jeff
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