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Re: [PATCH] tg3: capacitive coupling detection fix

To: Michael Chan <mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tg3: capacitive coupling detection fix
From: john stultz <johnstul@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 13:19:37 -0800
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, lkml <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Chris McDermott <lcm@xxxxxxxxxx>, keith maanthey <kmannth@xxxxxxxxxx>
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On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 12:44 -0800, Michael Chan wrote:
> This patch fixes the problem reported in:
> 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110798711911645&w=2
> 
> 
> The 5700 link problem was caused by reading uninitialized values in sram and
> causing capacitive coupling mode to be enabled by mistake. This patch fixes
> the problem by properly validating the sram contents.

Verified as working on the x440 I was seeing the trouble with.

Thanks!
-john


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