Subject: Re: [PATCH]realtek:r8169: Bugfix or workaround for missing extended GigaMAC registers settings

From: Wang YanQing <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 09:50:49 +0800

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 06:00:02PM +0800, Wang YanQing wrote:
> I found the mainline's r8169 works the same as realtek's driver,
> the first time don't work, but it works after reboot, the reason
> is the pci driver's shutdown don't call rtl_rar_set in 3.0 stable
> tree but the mainline does.
Sorry, I make a mistake here, the boths pci driver's shutdown call 
rtl_rar_set, but 3.0 stable tree don't include commit 
c28aa38567101bad4e020f4392df41d0bf6c165c(r8169 : MAC address change fix for the 8168e-vl)

Thanks