From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
Adam Jackson <ajax@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add eeprom_bad_csum_allow module option to e1000.
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:20:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071023212026.GF7793@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <471E5C21.8030908@garzik.org>
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:40:01PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > In any case, this patch should not be merged. We often send it around to users to
> > debug their issue in case it involves eeproms, but merging it will just conceal
> > the real issue and all of a sudden a flood of people stop reporting *real* issues
> > to us.
>
> Sorry, I disagree. Just as with e100, if there is a clear way the user
> can recover their setup -- and Adam says his was effective -- I don't
> see why we should be denying users the ability to use their own hardware.
Indeed. This is a common enough problem that not including it causes more pain
than its worth. I have two affected boxes myself that I actually thought
the hardware was dead before I tried ajax's patch.
People aren't going to report this as a bug. They aren't going to try out patches,
they're going to do what I did and stick another network card in the box and
go on with life.
Our users deserve better than this.
Dave
--
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-23 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-23 14:58 [PATCH] Add eeprom_bad_csum_allow module option to e1000 Adam Jackson
2007-10-23 16:18 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 16:21 ` Adam Jackson
2007-10-23 17:09 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 20:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-23 21:01 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 21:51 ` David Miller
2007-10-23 21:20 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2007-10-23 21:38 ` Alan Cox
2007-10-23 21:53 ` David Miller
2007-10-23 23:19 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-24 0:55 ` [PATCH] e1000, e1000e valid-addr fixes Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 1:03 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 1:07 ` David Miller
2007-10-24 2:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 2:23 ` David Miller
2007-11-01 18:04 ` Kok, Auke
2007-11-01 18:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-11-01 18:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-11-01 19:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-24 1:15 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-10-23 23:03 ` [PATCH] Add eeprom_bad_csum_allow module option to e1000 Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 23:03 ` Kok, Auke
2007-10-23 23:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-24 5:38 ` Dave Jones
2007-10-23 21:48 ` David Miller
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2007-10-24 4:53 speedy
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