forcedeth: add clock gating feature <resend>
authorAyaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Fri, 1 May 2009 01:41:50 +0000 (01:41 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 1 May 2009 22:30:45 +0000 (15:30 -0700)
commit88d7d8b00cdc3117150faab4c4ace6d464b71c22
tree86e114a66f9fb2e76a892876101f8a5e4959ac20
parent1aec5bdfed91b50aedbcad43393bcb05033c7ef3
forcedeth: add clock gating feature <resend>

This patch adds new logic to support a clock gating feature found on the
latest set of chipsets. The clock gating is performed on the tx/rx
engines when the link is disconnected. Clock gating helps in reducing
power consumption.

* modified based on comments from netdev

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/forcedeth.c