From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: RTL8153 fails to get link after applying c7de7dec2 to 3.8 kernel Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:58:50 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20140226.135850.1623740440287707032.davem@davemloft.net> References: <6055EBDEF51C4CDDBE25766ED5CACA67@realtek.com.tw> <20140226.115831.255949929805078536.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: hayeswang@realtek.com, inky.yoo@samsung.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: grundler@google.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:40118 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751066AbaBZS6w (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:58:52 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Grant Grundler Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:19:29 -0800 > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:58 AM, David Miller wrote: >> It is mysterious to me when a driver author behaves in such a way that >> they seem to want their driver to work on fewer instances of their >> hardware rather than support more of them. > > Well, we don't know the whole story. Samsung asked for a different USB > Vendor/Device ID and it's possible a few other things got change along > the way. > > If this HW/FW was clearly production and I had a patch that made it > work, then we'd be in the situation you are describing. Ok, fair enough.