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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc: RFC: Workaround for problems with lan8710 phy
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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:23:02 -0500 (EST)
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From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:23:30 +0100 (CET)

> Of course it'd be far better if faulty hardware can be autodetected in 
> runtime.

That is how this must be handled.