netdev - Re: RTL8153 fails to get link after applying c7de7dec2 to 3.8 kernel

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Date:	Wed, 26 Feb 2014 13:58:50 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	grundler@...gle.com
Cc:	hayeswang@...ltek.com, inky.yoo@...sung.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RTL8153 fails to get link after applying c7de7dec2 to 3.8
 kernel

From: Grant Grundler <grundler@...gle.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 09:19:29 -0800

> On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:58 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> It is mysterious to me when a driver author behaves in such a way that
>> they seem to want their driver to work on fewer instances of their
>> hardware rather than support more of them.
> 
> Well, we don't know the whole story. Samsung asked for a different USB
> Vendor/Device ID and it's possible a few other things got change along
> the way.
> 
> If this HW/FW was clearly production and I had a patch that made it
> work, then we'd be in the situation you are describing.

Ok, fair enough.
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