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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:52:46 +0100

> A clean solution would disable those modes altogether in the driver.

Absolutely agreed, in this specific case.  If that part of the
chip or the PHY is non-functional, it should be disabled in
the driver entirely.