From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com,
bphilips@novell.com, Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 6/8] e1000e: enable support for EEE on 82579
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 00:52:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1276732342.14011.670.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100616232747.4834.46491.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 16:27 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> From: Bruce Allan <bruce.w.allan@intel.com>
>
> This patch enables IEEE802.3az (a.k.a. Energy Efficient Ethernet) on the
> new 82579 LOMs. An optional module parameter is provided to disable the
> feature if desired.
[...]
IEEE802.3az has not been finalised and I heard that some significant
changes are still required relative to the latest draft. Given that,
any current implementation may not be interoperable with PHYs that
implement the final standard and it doesn't seem like a great idea to
enable it by default.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-16 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-16 23:25 [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/8] e1000e: cleanup ethtool loopback setup code Jeff Kirsher
2010-06-16 23:26 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/8] e1000e: cleanup e1000_sw_lcd_config_ich8lan() Jeff Kirsher
2010-06-16 23:26 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/8] e1000e: separate out PHY statistics register updates Jeff Kirsher
2010-06-16 23:27 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/8] e1000e: fix check for manageability on ICHx/PCH Jeff Kirsher
2010-06-16 23:27 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 5/8] e1000e: initial support for 82579 LOMs Jeff Kirsher
2010-06-16 23:27 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 6/8] e1000e: enable support for EEE on 82579 Jeff Kirsher
2010-06-16 23:52 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-06-16 23:28 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 7/8] e1000e: update copyright information Jeff Kirsher
2010-06-16 23:28 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 8/8] e1000e: update driver version number Jeff Kirsher
2010-06-19 5:15 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/8] e1000e: cleanup ethtool loopback setup code David Miller
2010-06-20 7:32 ` Jeff Kirsher
2010-06-20 21:48 ` David Miller
2010-06-30 22:41 ` Allan, Bruce W
2010-06-30 23:06 ` David Miller
2010-07-01 15:55 ` Ben Hutchings
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