Re: [patch 2/27] Fix 3c59x driver for some 3c566B's

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Andrew Morton wrote:

> Fix from Rahul Karnik and Donald Becker - some new 3c566B mini-PCI NICs
> refuse to power up the transceiver unless we tickle an undocumented bit
> in an undocumented register. They worked this out by before-and-after
> diffing of the register contents when it was set up by the Windows
> driver.

Just to clarify -- Dave Dribin did the actual capturing of the EEPROM
contents; Donald Becker posted the code to implement the fix; and I simply
adapted the fix to the in-kernel driver.

Thanks,
Rahul

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