Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: revert part of 6dccd16b7c2703e8bbf8bca62b5cf248332afbe2

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:05:19 -0400

Francois Romieu wrote:
> The 8169/8110SC currently announces itself as:
> [...]
> eth0: RTL8169sc/8110sc at 0x........, ..:..:..:..:..:.., XID 18000000 IRQ ..
>                                                              ^^^^^^^^
> It uses RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_05 and this part of the changeset can cut
> its performance by a factor of 2~2.5 as reported by Timo.
> 
> (the driver includes code just before the hunk to write the ChipCmd
> register when mac_version == RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_0[1-4])
> 
> Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Timo Jantunen <[email-masked]>

I'm applying this, but, please do copy Edward @ RealTek on patches like 
this, as a courtesy if nothing else.

Sometimes the kernel development process can be a bit impenetrable for 
newcomers, and I'd like to give as much visibility as possible to the 
process for the hardware vendor.

	Jeff