From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: amit.salecha@qlogic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
ameen.rahman@qlogic.com, anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com,
sony.chacko@qlogic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH NEXT 2/2] netxen: support for GbE port settings
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:32:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110314.153240.241445951.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1300141822.2584.71.camel@bwh-desktop>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:30:22 +0000
> On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 15:15 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
>> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:50:03 -0800
>>
>> > From: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com>
>> >
>> > o Allow setting speed and auto negotiation parameters for GbE ports.
>> > o Log an error message to indicate duplex setting is not supported in
>> > the hardware currently.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@qlogic.com>
>> > Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
>>
>> The kernel log is not the place to transmit this information.
>>
>> Please work with Ben Hutchings who is working for ways to report
>> this to the user in the proper location, via ethtool.
>
> I am? Well, patches welcome, at least.
You were discussing a scheme, I think with Intel folks, about letting
such changes through then making ethtool re-read the settings and see
which changes were not integrated by the driver.
Then you'd emit a diagnostic from ethtool over stderr to report any
such discrepencies.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-14 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-11 9:50 [PATCH NEXT 0/2]nexten: bug fixes Amit Kumar Salecha
2011-03-11 9:50 ` [PATCH NEXT 1/2] netxen: Notify firmware of Flex-10 interface down Amit Kumar Salecha
2011-03-14 22:14 ` David Miller
2011-03-11 9:50 ` [PATCH NEXT 2/2] netxen: support for GbE port settings Amit Kumar Salecha
2011-03-14 22:15 ` David Miller
2011-03-14 22:30 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-14 22:32 ` David Miller [this message]
2011-03-14 22:44 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-03-14 22:54 ` David Miller
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-11 10:44 [PATCH NEXT 0/2]nexten: bug fixes Amit Kumar Salecha
2011-03-11 10:44 ` [PATCH NEXT 2/2] netxen: support for GbE port settings Amit Kumar Salecha
2011-04-11 22:56 ` Ben Hutchings
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