Subject: Re: [e1000]: flow control on by default - good idea really?

From: Auke Kok <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 11:32:08 -0700

David Miller wrote:
> From: jamal <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2006 15:20:39 -0400
> 
>> BTW, As an addendum this default behavior changed around 2.6.16 it
>> seems.
> 
> Flow control has been on by default in the tg3 driver since the
> beginning, maybe e1000 only recently started to behave that way
> but it's the right thing to do IMHO.

As said earlier, e1000 always honors the EEPROM setting for this, which has 
been _on_ by default for all cards (AFAIK, that is).

Cheers,

Auke