Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 2 Apr 2013 00:24:32 +0200 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] r8169: fix could not dump registers |
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Hayes Wang <hayeswang@realtek.com> : > For new version of Fedora and Ubuntu, we see all 0xff when dumping > the hw regs through ethtool. Using a loop to read registers could > fix it.
If it fixes a problem which lives outside of net-next, it should target "net", not "net-next".
"new version" does not help when a commit log can be read at any time and/or when people try to identify patches for -stable branches. You do not say which kernel / chipsets combination are known to exhibit the problem.
Fundamentally, nobody can tell from the description if it is a kernel or hardware problem nor why things work better after the change.
-- Ueimor
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