netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: remove firmware for RTL8169D PHY

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Date:	Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:47:11 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	romieu@...zoreil.com, edward_hsu@...ltek.com.tw,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: remove firmware for RTL8169D PHY

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:48:07 +0000

> The recently added support for RTL8169D chips included some machine
> code without accompanying source code.  Replace this with use of the
> firmware loader.
> 
> Compile-tested only.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
> ---
> Here's my attempt at the driver change.  I leave it to you to work out
> licencing of the firmware blob.

I'm not even looking at this patch until you do some research
and substantiate your claims about what this thing is doing.
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