From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:01:05 +0100

Also, this driver schedules a reset in case a fifo error is reported in
rtl8169_rx_interrupt()

                if (status & RxFOVF) {
                        rtl8169_schedule_work(dev, rtl8169_reset_task);
                        dev->stats.rx_fifo_errors++;
                }


This seems very strange too : In case of a RX spike, we reset card ?

It's possible that this has been found to hang the card.

If so, it should be documented because otherwise yes we
should not be doing this.