On 09.05.2012, at 23:05, Andreas Färber wrote: > Am 09.05.2012 23:00, schrieb Alexander Graf: >> >> On 09.05.2012, at 22:20, Andreas Färber wrote: >> >>> Am 14.02.2012 04:10, schrieb [email protected]: >>>> From: Bo Yang <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> Windows 2008 sp2 tries to read mac address from phys >>>> and then write the read value into it. This patch >>>> is a workaround for the issue. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Bo Yang <[email protected]> >>>> --- >>>> hw/rtl8139.c | 2 ++ >>>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >>> >>> Ping! Who feels responsible for reviewing this? >>> It would be a candidate for 1.1 and 0.15.x (BNC#722643). >>> >>> Only issue I see is that the subject could be improved (saying what it >>> does rather than what was broken before, e.g. "rtl8139: Init phys with >>> MAC address"). >> >> I thought the real bug was that the reset function didn't get called? > > That was for the e1000 that I was working on (BNC#722958). I believe Bo > tested the combination of both patches?
IIRC the bug was the same, just that you found the root cause and Bo came up with this patch :). Alex
