Re: forcedeth: option to disable 100Hz timer (try 2)

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:25:03 -0600 Robert Hancock <hancockr@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Enabling by 
> default and disabling after a TX done interrupt was received would 
> likely be a better approach

yup, that's far better.

> But it's quite likely that at least some of the 
> chipsets that this driver supports don't need this timer nonsense at all

Well yes.  If all the chipsets need the timer then there's nothing we
can do to improve it.

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