From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings 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 Message-ID: <1276732342.14011.670.camel@localhost> References: <20100616232523.4834.84849.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20100616232747.4834.46491.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, bphilips@novell.com, Bruce Allan To: Jeff Kirsher Return-path: Received: from mail.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:26071 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756041Ab0FPXw1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:52:27 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100616232747.4834.46491.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 16:27 -0700, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > From: Bruce Allan > > 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. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.