netdev - Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

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Message-ID: <b3ece790705012351g5c0ff8a6g9f2f350ff86f3319@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 May 2007 23:51:41 -0700
From:	"Tim Hockin" <thockin@...kin.org>
To:	"Rafał Bilski" <rafalbilski@...eria.pl>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Natsemi DP83815 driver spaming

On 5/1/07, Rafal Bilski <rafalbilski@...eria.pl> wrote:

> 2.6.21.1 is first kernel which I'm using at this device. Earlier it was
> WindowsCE terminal. It is hardware fault. Commenting out the code is my
> way to avoid "wakeup" messages in log, but I don't want to change anything
> in vanilla kernel. I'm lucky that NIC is working at all.

I'm not sure what the right answer is.  The code was designed to do
the right thing, and yet in your case it's broken.  Does it need to be
a build option to work around broken hardware?  Yuck.
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