On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 04:40:01PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > In any case, this patch should not be merged. We often send it around to
> > users to
> > debug their issue in case it involves eeproms, but merging it will just
> > conceal
> > the real issue and all of a sudden a flood of people stop reporting *real*
> > issues
> > to us.
>
> Sorry, I disagree. Just as with e100, if there is a clear way the user
> can recover their setup -- and Adam says his was effective -- I don't
> see why we should be denying users the ability to use their own hardware.
Indeed. This is a common enough problem that not including it causes more pain
than its worth. I have two affected boxes myself that I actually thought
the hardware was dead before I tried ajax's patch.
People aren't going to report this as a bug. They aren't going to try out
patches,
they're going to do what I did and stick another network card in the box and
go on with life.
Our users deserve better than this.
Dave
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http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
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