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Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:22:48 -0600
From: Josip Loncaric <josip@lanl.gov>
Organization: LANL
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To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: PROBLEM: sk98lin misbehaves with D-Link DGE-530T which doesn't
 have readable VPD
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:49:45 -0600
> Josip Loncaric <josip@lanl.gov> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Driver sk98lin makes repeated attempts to read VPD even after the first 
>>VpdInit() fails.  This is wrong.
> 
> Now that skge is in 2.6.13, perhaps the proper thing to do is to take
> DGE-530T out of the PCI table for sk98lin?

Sounds good to me -- since your skge works fine -- but there are lots of 
people with Marvell GBE on the motherboard that are in the same 
predicament.  The PCI table for sk98lin could be pruned further (in 
favor of skge).

Sincerely,
Josip
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