combo ethernet-firewire PHY chip and the firewire PHY seems to die the same way when that happens. Not trying to toggle the firewire cable power appears to fix it. So this patch disables changes to the firewire cable power control GPIO on those models. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Jeff Garzik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds ñB