Subject: Re: [patch 097/101] revert "drivers/net/tulip/dmfe: support basic carrier detection"

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:14:44 -0800

On Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:12:12 -0800
Greg KH <[email-masked]> wrote:

> 
> From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
> 
> 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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Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>