Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:22:19 +0100
From: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: booster@wolke7.net, hayeswang <hayeswang@realtek.com>,
        "'Eric Dumazet'" <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
        "'nic_swsd'" <nic_swsd@realtek.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        "'Armin Kazmi'" <armin.kazmi@tu-dortmund.de>,
        Lucas Stach <dev@lynxeye.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] r8169: Rx FIFO overflow fixes.
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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> :
[...]
> What do you think?  Is there any way I can help?  (E.g., given rough
> guidelines about what approach is acceptable I'd be happy to work with
> Gerd to produce a tested patch that does (1) and (2) but not (3) for
> 3.0.y.)

Few guidelines are needed: go for it.

I would trust the manufacturer for (3) though.

If you still have time to help, you should really try to break davem-next
branch. I won't claim it's bug-free but the IRQ / napi / Tx processing in
the r8169 driver should now be easier to read and maintain.

-- 
Ueimor
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