Bug#800085: linux-image-4.1.0-2-armmp: The ethernet fails to come up on my Allwinner A10 device.

[Ian Campbell <ijc@debian.org>]

On Sun, 2015-09-27 at 02:55 +0200, Gianluca Renzi wrote:
> Sorry but I don't agree with you. Supposing the allwinner A10 device
> need some voltage regulator drivers to be enabled in the kernel to
> have some devices in a working state, this not hurts some other
> devices that have some other configuration setting different in
> hardware layout. They are defined in the device tree for this
> particular machine, vendor or somewhere else. So the drivers for the
> regulator can be safely inserted into the A10 Debian kernel and you
> will don't break down anything.

Ben said, and I agree, that nothing in the set of modules suggested in
the URL enables any kind of real regulator. So while everything you say
is true, it is of no relevance here I'm afraid.

If you know of a specific option for a _physical_ regulator device (or
other physical bit of h/w) which should be enabled and/or loaded to fix
this issue then please let us know what it is.

Thanks,
Ian.