From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Ayaz Abdulla" <AAbdulla@nvidia.com>
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, eswierk@arastra.com
Subject: Re: [patch 02/10] forcedeth: power down phy when interface is down
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:30:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071213163046.c2e9d340.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F72FA20C31DD4F4C997B91C5B3690A091A990D@hqemmail07.nvidia.com>
On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:11:55 -0800
"Ayaz Abdulla" <AAbdulla@nvidia.com> wrote:
> I would not include this patch until further testing is performed.
> NVIDIA MCP chips use 3rd party PHY vendors. By powering down the phy, it
> could have adverse affects on certain phys.
>
> Ayaz
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: akpm@linux-foundation.org [mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2007 4:03 PM
> To: jeff@garzik.org
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; akpm@linux-foundation.org;
> eswierk@arastra.com; Ayaz Abdulla
> Subject: [patch 02/10] forcedeth: power down phy when interface is down
>
>
> From: "Ed Swierk" <eswierk@arastra.com>
>
> Bring the physical link down when the interface is down by placing the
> PHY
> in power-down state, unless WOL is enabled. This mirrors the behavior
> of
> other drivers including e1000 and tg3.
Does this patch actually fix any observeable problem?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-14 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-14 0:02 [patch 02/10] forcedeth: power down phy when interface is down akpm
2007-12-14 0:11 ` Ayaz Abdulla
2007-12-14 0:30 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-12-14 0:51 ` Brandeburg, Jesse
2007-12-14 0:53 ` Ed Swierk
2007-12-14 1:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-12-14 20:30 ` Ayaz Abdulla
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