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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.5] (4/9) bridge - use ethtool to get port speed
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 14:15:37 -0700
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On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 15:24:40 -0700
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> wrote:

> The bridge code needs to keep track of a cost estimate for each
> port in the bridge.  Instead of a hack based on device name, try
> and use ethtool to get port speed from device.  This has been tested
> on e100 (uses ethtool_ops) and e1000 (does ethtool the hard way)
> and dummy (no ethtool).

Looks fine, applied.