On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:10, Kyle Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
> The Intel 82571EB chipset can be used in an unmanaged configuration as a
> fast dual-port Gig-E controller.  Unfortunately a board constructed that
> way would fail to correctly come up because the driver polls for the
> completion of a management cycle that will never occur.
>
> To resolve this problem, we disable the poll and error return on chips
> whose EEPROMs indicate no management.  As a protection against
> misconfigured chipsets, we still delay for the entire management poll
> timeout.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/e1000e/82571.c |    7 +++++++
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>

Thanks Kyle, I have added the patch to my queue.

-- 
Cheers,
Jeff

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