From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org,
Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
Chris Wedgwood <reviews@ml.cw.f00f.org>,
Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>,
Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
thomas@archlinux.org, val_henson@linux.intel.com,
samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
Subject: Re: [patch 097/101] revert "drivers/net/tulip/dmfe: support basic carrier detection"
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:14:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070307101444.52cb2146@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070307171657.461008445@mini.kroah.org>
On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:12:12 -0800
Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
>
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>
> Revert 7628b0a8c01a02966d2228bdf741ddedb128e8f8. Thomas Bachler
> reports:
>
> Commit 7628b0a8c01a02966d2228bdf741ddedb128e8f8 (drivers/net/tulip/dmfe:
> support basic carrier detection) breaks networking on my Davicom DM9009.
> ethtool always reports there is no link. tcpdump shows incoming packets,
> but TX is disabled. Reverting the above patch fixes the problem.
>
Carrier detection support is important and should be fixed rather than removed.
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-07 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20070307171035.150802805@mini.kroah.org>
2007-03-07 17:11 ` [patch 029/101] IPV6: HASHTABLES: Use appropriate seed for caluculating ehash index Greg KH
2007-03-07 17:12 ` [patch 097/101] revert "drivers/net/tulip/dmfe: support basic carrier detection" Greg KH
2007-03-07 18:14 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2007-03-08 2:41 ` Dan Williams
2007-03-08 3:06 ` Linus Torvalds
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