amd64/119047: Not correct working RealTek 8168/8111B PCIe

[Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri]

On Dec 29, 2007 5:50 AM, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:36:48AM +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
>  > Works for me too!
>  >
>
> Thanks for feedback!
>
>
>  > Can you put it in RELENG_7 since RELENG_7_0 is there?
>  >
>
> As you noticed from the size of the jumbo patch it changes several
> operation scheme in the driver. Since re(4) supports lots of
> model/revisions from RealTek it requires much more exposure and
> testing under various environments(e.g. testing on sparc64 platforms
> and > 4GB memory configuration etc).
>
> I think updating drivers in HEAD prior to releasing 7.0/6.3 is not
> good idea as it would make it hard to find/test possible bugs in
> the release. The patch would be committed to HEAD first after 7.0
> goes out.
>
> Thanks.
> --
> Regards,
> Pyun YongHyeon
>

Hello Pyun,

It has been in HEAD for sometime now...

Could you please put it in RELENG_7 and not MFC it to RELENG_7_0 ?

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Regards,

-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
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