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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: fix forced mode misbehaviour for aneg off case
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:41:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080703104143.6620e99f@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080703171614.GA21126@polina.dev.rtsoft.ru>

On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:16:14 +0400
Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:

> With disabled autonegotiation and link absence, phylib will place phy
> into the forcing mode, thus will start calling phy_force_reduction().
> That means that for the drivers that are using phylib we can't actually
> set fixed speed for the link.
> 
> For example:
> 
> # ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 1000

FYI autonegotiation is required in gigabit mode per 802 spec.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-03 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-03 17:16 [PATCH] phylib: fix forced mode misbehaviour for aneg off case Anton Vorontsov
2008-07-03 17:41 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-07-03 18:11   ` Anton Vorontsov
2008-07-03 19:18     ` Ben Hutchings

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