Re: 2.6.3 RT8139too NIC problems

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 12:13:17 EST


On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 04:47:08PM -0000, Nick Warne wrote:
> >From my config file:
>
> # CONFIG_8139CP is not set
> CONFIG_8139TOO=y
> # CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO is not set
> # CONFIG_8139TOO_TUNE_TWISTER is not set
> # CONFIG_8139TOO_8129 is not set
> # CONFIG_8139_OLD_RX_RESET is not set
> # CONFIG_8139_RXBUF_IDX= is not set
>
> No other NIC drivers are used.
>
> I am also stuck as to what the new RXBUF_IDX is for. It appears the
> new build needs it, as I cannot remove.
>
So read the help entry in Kconfig. Before this change went in, pretty much
everyone defaulted to a 32k receive ring size, which is also the current
default. If you had used the default value of 2 instead of trying to hack
around it, you might get better behavior from your driver..

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