On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
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> I can't reproduce the users problem with the hardware I have. And 
> without the patch the dual port board doesn't work. So it is a question 
> of regression, versus fixing pre-existing bugs.

Yeah. Five years ago I might have said that it's important to fix 
pre-existing bugs, but all the ACPI and suspend etc problems have long 
since convinced me that regressions are *much* more important than stuff 
that never worked.

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> I am okay with reverting the patch, as a temporary state, but concerned 
> with how to make progress in fixing this.

Well, the original bug-report did contain a suggested workaround too.

		Linus
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