Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754422AbXJWVsk (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:48:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752891AbXJWVsb (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:48:31 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:37538 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751564AbXJWVsa (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:48:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 14:48:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20071023.144857.03983847.davem@davemloft.net> To: jeff@garzik.org Cc: auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com, ajax@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add eeprom_bad_csum_allow module option to e1000. From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <471E5C21.8030908@garzik.org> References: <1193156487.26974.39.camel@localhost.localdomain> <471E2AD0.1000500@intel.com> <471E5C21.8030908@garzik.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.1.52 on Emacs 21.4 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 719 Lines: 17 From: Jeff Garzik Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:40:01 -0400 > Sorry, I disagree. Just as with e100, if there is a clear way the user > can recover their setup -- and Adam says his was effective -- I don't > see why we should be denying users the ability to use their own hardware. I'd like to second these sentiments. Just because you can come up with cases where using a wrong eeprom would fail, does not mean the facility should not be provided at all. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/