On 1/20/06, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems like the important question is, why does e100 need a watchdog if > eepro100 works fine without one? Isn't the point of a watchdog in this > context to work around other bugs in the driver (or the hardware)? There are a number of things that the watchdog in e100 does. It checks link (up, down), reads the hardware stats, adjusts the adaptive IFS and checks to 3 known hang conditions based on certain types of the hardware. You might be able to get around without doing the work-arounds (as long as you don't' see hangs happening with the hardware being used) but the checking of the link and the stats are probably needed.
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