From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
pavel@ucw.cz, cramerj@intel.com, john.ronciak@intel.com,
jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000: "fix" it on thinkpad x60 / eeprom checksum read fails
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:12:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060721151239.GC2290@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060721064105.aa960acd.akpm@osdl.org>
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 06:41:05AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It's completely not acceptable to run when the EEPROM checksum fails - you
> > might even be running with the wrong MAC address, or worse. Lets fix this the
> > right way instead.
>
> A printk which helps the user to understand all this saga would be very nice.
> -
And if someone who understands all of these details could put a note
in the thinkwiki (say, here:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ethernet_Controllers#Intel_Gigabit_.2810.2F100.2F1000.29)
it would be greatly appreciated.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-21 15:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-21 0:58 e1000: "fix" it on thinkpad x60 Pavel Machek
2006-07-20 16:21 ` e1000: "fix" it on thinkpad x60 / eeprom checksum read fails Auke Kok
2006-07-20 17:07 ` Pavel Machek
2006-07-20 17:34 ` Auke Kok
2006-07-21 13:41 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-21 15:12 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2006-07-21 15:22 ` Auke Kok
2006-07-22 0:21 ` Andrew Morton
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