Vladimir Cotfas wrote:
> Jan,
> 
>> I had it running only for a short while w/o the WDT and I did not see any
>>> lockup. I could do a longer test.
>> That would make e100 _very_ interesting as a eepro100 replacement, at
>> least mid-term when we know that no eepro100 users suffer from potential
>> regressions with e100.
>>
> 
> I left the driver run over night connected to our mixed corporate network, I
> had a Linux machine pinging it non-stop (just  to prove that we don't have
> an rtskb leak) and everything looks fine.
> 
> The TX timeout watchdog did NOT kick in ;)

That's good to hear. Probably the micro-code updates make the difference.

So we should definitely head for a (cleaned up) rt_e100.

> 
> However I will keep the wtd in place; again you can make it a compile-time
> option via autoconf.

No need, in fact. The timer is running in non-RT, and if it hits, it
doesn't disturb the rest of the system (rtdm_lock_irqsave path looks short).

Jan

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