Re: [PATCH net-next 5/7] r8169: add a new chip for RTL8111G

[Francois Romieu]

hayeswang <hayeswang@xxxxxxxxxxx> :
> Francois Romieu [mailto:romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
[...]
> > There is close to zero added value for this stuff in the kernel.
> > You may as well move it completely into the firmware.
> 
> Do you mean all of the phy settings ? I have checked these settings with
> our hw engineers. These are not firmware. 

Undocumented configuration data which is subject to change over time ?

No one outside of Realtek can make any sense of this opaque pile of data.
There is no point in me or anybody else rubber stamping it for inclusion.

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Ueimor
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