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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: r8169 temporary failure to read mac from rom
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:23:30 -0400
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Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
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Francois Romieu wrote:
> Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> :
> [...]
>> with today's git r8169 failed to read MAC from rom
>>
>> r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded
>> r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
>> r8169 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
>> eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc20000352000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 38000000 IRQ 4346
> 
> Yep, I have got one of those here. It should be fixed/papered over by
> any of:
> 
> http://userweb.kernel.org/~romieu/r8169/2.6.27-git8/20081020
> 
> or:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/romieu/netdev-2.6.git r8169-fixes
> 
> A pull request was sent on 2008/10/16 (well, almost 17).

Sorry, I missed that pull request.  Will grab it now...

	Jeff