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To: Florian Schirmer <jolt@tuxbox.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][1/4] b44: Ignore carrier lost errors
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Florian Schirmer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> some (?) hardware seems to be buggy and is reporting bogus carrier lost 
> values. Both reference implementations from Broadcom indicate that this 
> counter is not reliable and therefore ignore it. We should do the same. 
> "Fixes" the carrier lost problem i've seen.
> 
> Regards,
>   Florian
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Schirmer <jolt@tuxbox.org>

patch applied to 2.6.x