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Date:      Thu, 23 Jul 2020 12:39:00 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Alex Dupre <ale@FreeBSD.org>
To:        ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r542930 - head/net/realtek-re-kmod
Message-ID:  <202007231239.06NCd0Ia038404@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: ale
Date: Thu Jul 23 12:39:00 2020
New Revision: 542930
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/542930

Log:
  Further enhance the pkg-message and bump PORTREVISION.

Modified:
  head/net/realtek-re-kmod/Makefile
  head/net/realtek-re-kmod/pkg-message

Modified: head/net/realtek-re-kmod/Makefile
==============================================================================
--- head/net/realtek-re-kmod/Makefile	Thu Jul 23 12:34:48 2020	(r542929)
+++ head/net/realtek-re-kmod/Makefile	Thu Jul 23 12:39:00 2020	(r542930)
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 PORTNAME=	re
 DISTVERSION=	v196.04
-PORTREVISION=	1
+PORTREVISION=	2
 CATEGORIES=	net
 MASTER_SITES=	LOCAL/ale
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	realtek-

Modified: head/net/realtek-re-kmod/pkg-message
==============================================================================
--- head/net/realtek-re-kmod/pkg-message	Thu Jul 23 12:34:48 2020	(r542929)
+++ head/net/realtek-re-kmod/pkg-message	Thu Jul 23 12:39:00 2020	(r542930)
@@ -9,9 +9,12 @@ if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"
 
 By default, the size of allocated mbufs is enough
 to receive the largest Ethernet frame supported
-by the card.  The value is tunable at boot time,
+by the card.  If your memory is highly fragmented,
+trying to allocate contiguous pages (more than
+4096 bytes) may result in driver hangs.
+For this reason the value is tunable at boot time,
 e.g. if you don't need Jumbo frames you can lower
-the memory requirements with:
+the memory requirements and avoid this issue with:
 
 hw.re.max_rx_mbuf_sz="2048"
 EOM



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