Comment 78 for bug 138611

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In , stephen (stephen-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

There is a problem on Yukon-EC that causes the receive fifo to hang.
Workaround code in 2.6.23 that is supposed to detect and fix it.

The problem also only occurs if there is no flow control. The sky2
autonegotiates to enable flow control but some hardware doesn't support
flow control or has it disables.