netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] r8169: add a new chip for RTL8111G

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Message-ID: <20130402232008.GB16612@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Wed, 3 Apr 2013 01:20:08 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	hayeswang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] r8169: add a new chip for RTL8111G

hayeswang <hayeswang@...ltek.com> :
> Francois Romieu [mailto:romieu@...zoreil.com] 
[...]
> > There is close to zero added value for this stuff in the kernel.
> > You may as well move it completely into the firmware.
> 
> Do you mean all of the phy settings ? I have checked these settings with
> our hw engineers. These are not firmware. 

Undocumented configuration data which is subject to change over time ?

No one outside of Realtek can make any sense of this opaque pile of data.
There is no point in me or anybody else rubber stamping it for inclusion.

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Ueimor
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