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Message-Id: <1233257011.3656.56.camel@achroite>
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
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
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