Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8139cp: set ring address after enabling C+ mode

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 23:53:11 -0500

On 11/21/2012 11:39 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:47:39 -0500
>
>> State A:  pre-b01af457, known working
>> State B:  b01af457, known broken
>
> State A is also known buggy on the largest consumer of this driver,
> the emulated hardware.
>
> Please evaluate this realistically.

If the simulator fails to match the hardware, that is a simulator bug.

It is disappointing to work around someone else's software bug in the 
kernel.

	Jeff