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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: aabdulla@nvidia.com
Cc: manfred@colorfullife.com, akpm@osdl.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: updated phy errata
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:54:28 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090904.155428.157355417.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA14CBE.8000402@nvidia.com>

From: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:22:06 -0400

> Phy vendors have said "No" in the past. I can request for 'opening up'
> the bits again, but not all vendors will comply - resulting in no
> support for forcedeth. This is currently the only way to provide a
> good experience for the end user.

If I make it more difficult for you to get you're patch into the tree
than to get permission from the vendor, I'm sure you'll find a way to
make it happen.


      reply	other threads:[~2009-09-04 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-31 23:08 [PATCH] forcedeth: updated phy errata Ayaz Abdulla
2009-09-03  6:22 ` David Miller
2009-09-04 13:57   ` Ayaz Abdulla
2009-09-04 22:00     ` David Miller
2009-09-04 17:22       ` Ayaz Abdulla
2009-09-04 22:54         ` David Miller [this message]

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