netdev - Re: [PATCH 04/20] sfc: SFX7101: Remove workaround for bad link training

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Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2009 19:23:31 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/20] sfc: SFX7101: Remove workaround for bad link
	training

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 19:17 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Early versions of the SFX7101 firmware could complete link training in
> a state where it would not adequately cancel noise (Solarflare bug
> 10750).  We previously worked around this by resetting the PHY after
> seeing many Ethernet CRC errors.  This workaround is unsafe since it
> takes no account of the interval between errors; it also appears to
> be unnecessary with production firmware.  Therefore remove it.

Should actually be attributed as:
From: Steve Hodgson <shodgson@...arflare.com>

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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