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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] phylib: fix forced mode misbehaviour for aneg off case
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 10:41:43 -0700
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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.