| Date | Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:14:44 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [patch 097/101] revert "drivers/net/tulip/dmfe: support basic carrier detection" |
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On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:12:12 -0800 Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> wrote:
> > From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > > Revert 7628b0a8c01a02966d2228bdf741ddedb128e8f8. Thomas Bachler > reports: > > Commit 7628b0a8c01a02966d2228bdf741ddedb128e8f8 (drivers/net/tulip/dmfe: > support basic carrier detection) breaks networking on my Davicom DM9009. > ethtool always reports there is no link. tcpdump shows incoming packets, > but TX is disabled. Reverting the above patch fixes the problem. >
Carrier detection support is important and should be fixed rather than removed.
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