From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [RFC NET-NEXT PATCH 0/6] implement MDI-X set support in Intel drivers Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:48:05 +0100 Message-ID: <1343256485.5132.152.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> References: <20120725175430.9995.11370.stgit@jbrandeb-snb.jf.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: Jesse Brandeburg Return-path: Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:56150 "EHLO ocex02.SolarFlarecom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751548Ab2GYWsJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:48:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20120725175430.9995.11370.stgit@jbrandeb-snb.jf.intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 10:59 -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > This is an update (v2) to the patches sent previously. > > This series implements MDI-X set support in the Intel gigabit ethernet > drivers. It specifically allows a user to control the MDI state, > in order for them to work around issues with broken switches. > > The only change to this series is updated descriptions and an > addition of reporting the current mdix_ctrl value in the > "get_settings" functions, which allows the new extended reporting > in the ethtool app's MDI-X: line > > sent as RFC for now to get feedback while internal testing > completes. (and net-next is closed) [...] This all looks sane. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.