Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
> * Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-26 00:05]:
> > > I'd like to backport the fix to the 2.6.18 kernel that is in our
> > > stable release and have a couple of questions:
> > > - Does your later patch "align the IP header when there is no DMA
> >
* Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-26 00:05]:
> > I'd like to backport the fix to the 2.6.18 kernel that is in our
> > stable release and have a couple of questions:
> > - Does your later patch "align the IP header when there is no DMA
> >constraint" fix any bugs or is it merely an
Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :
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> I'd like to backport the fix to the 2.6.18 kernel that is in our
> stable release and have a couple of questions:
> - Does your later patch "align the IP header when there is no DMA
>constraint" fix any bugs or is it merely an improvement?
It fix
Hi Francois,
A Debian user reported that NFS transfers are not working correctly on
a Thecus N2100 (which has two 8169 ports). I confirmed this bug with
2.6.18 and 2.6.22 but couldn't reproduce it with 2.6.23. A git bisect
has revealed that your patch "confusion between hardware and IP header
al
The rx copybreak part is straightforward.
The align field in struct rtl_cfg_info is related to the alignment
requirements of the DMA operation. Its value is set at 2 to limit the
scale of possible regression but my old v1.21 8169 datasheet claims a
8 bytes requirements (which never appeared in the
