David Rees a écrit :
> On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Luis Menina <[email protected]> wrote:
>> But it seems you're right ! After a modprobe -r forcedeth, the number of
>> wakeups is divided by 3 !
> 
> http://ww.linuxpowertop.org/known.php#forcedeth
> 
> It's a known issue. If you read the comments in the driver, you can
> see details of why:
> 
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/forcedeth.c
> 
> -Dave
> 

Thanks for the tip ! I've found a patch proposal to add an option to 
disable that polling, but it seems it wasn't applied.
http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Kernel/2008-09/msg03838.html

I'm I overlooking something or the only way to improve the situation ATM 
is to recompile that module ?

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