On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:34:23 -0700 Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Okay, perhaps this should be inserted as a comment into the driver, > > and printk should be fixed to point at this explanation? > > > > Can't we enable the driver with the bad checksum, then read the _real_ > > data? > > no. > > We're working on a solution where we make sure that the PHY is physically > turned on properly before we read the EEPROM, which would be the proper fix. > It's completely not acceptable to run when the EEPROM checksum fails - you > might even be running with the wrong MAC address, or worse. Lets fix this the > right way instead. A printk which helps the user to understand all this saga would be very nice. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
