From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: forcedeth: option to disable 100Hz timer
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 01:40:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080902014058.0253cae2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080902024748.5528d1bb@gmail.com>
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 02:47:48 +0400
Mikhail Kshevetskiy <mikhail.kshevetskiy@gmail.com> wrote:
> On some hardware no TX done interrupts are generated, thus special
> 100Hz timer interrupt is required to handle this situation properly.
> Other device do not require that timer interrupt feature.
>
> Patch add a "disable_timerirq" option to disable interrupt timer
> mentioned above. This may be extremely usefull for laptop users.
Is it not possible to detect this case. Do the problem devices just miss
some TX interrupts or generate most but not all ?
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-02 0:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-01 22:47 Mikhail Kshevetskiy
2008-09-02 0:40 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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2008-09-02 0:41 ` Robert Hancock
2008-09-02 16:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
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