On 2013-05-14 3:06 PM, Andrew McDonnell wrote:
> Hi Felix,
> 
> I am trying to port the DIR-632-A1 and made the most progress fixing the
> ag71xx to work on this board by following what the (working but differently
> architectured) DD-WRT driver for the AG7240 does.  It sets ring sizes that are
> different from the defaults provided by OPenWRT.  This was one of the changes
> I made early on before I finally got eth0 working, so it is possibly
> redundant, but I figured the developers chose those values for a reason and
> they work for me...
Right, the problem with that line of thinking is that sometimes things
are done in a particular way for no good reason :)

> Is the above too verbose? :-)
It's fine, but my recommendation stands: With every change that you make
in your patch submissions, you have to either have a reason for it, or
have explicitly tested if it makes a difference or not.

> Note, I am still gaining experience workng with Linux kernel ethernet drivers,
> so I dont deeply understand some of the code, but I am following proven
> working software and testing by transferring multiple large files.
Sounds good.

- Felix
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