From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8139cp: set ring address after enabling C+ mode Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:53:11 -0500 Message-ID: <50ADAFB7.7070704@pobox.com> References: <50AD1972.5080403@pobox.com> <1353529639.26346.164.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <50ADA05B.2000308@pobox.com> <20121121.233945.2225341904551631404.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org, jasowang@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from mail-vc0-f174.google.com ([209.85.220.174]:51904 "EHLO mail-vc0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751246Ab2KVUaZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2012 15:30:25 -0500 Received: by mail-vc0-f174.google.com with SMTP id m18so5023451vcm.19 for ; Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:30:24 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20121121.233945.2225341904551631404.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 11/21/2012 11:39 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Jeff Garzik > Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:47:39 -0500 > >> State A: pre-b01af457, known working >> State B: b01af457, known broken > > State A is also known buggy on the largest consumer of this driver, > the emulated hardware. > > Please evaluate this realistically. If the simulator fails to match the hardware, that is a simulator bug. It is disappointing to work around someone else's software bug in the kernel. Jeff