| To: | Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@xxxxxxxxxxx> |
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| Subject: | Re: Fw: [BUG/PATCH] CONFIG_NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL and SMP |
| From: | Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> |
| Date: | Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:39:29 -0400 |
| Cc: | Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, dfages@xxxxxxxxxx |
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Robert Olsson wrote: Hello!IMO HW_FLOWCONTROL is now outdated. It has served very well and encouraged people to use for Linux production networking. With a 2 tulip NIC's on a UP system as a typical system. Only tulip has code for it. This option was added by Alexey in 2.1.63 something... If someone had a NAPI patch for tulip, we could remove HW_FLOWCONTROL option altogether :)
Jeff
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