From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: jkosina@suse.cz, pt@netconsequence.de, otavio@ossystems.com.br,
javier@dowhile0.org, chohnstaedt@innominate.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc: RFC: Workaround for problems with lan8710 phy auto MDI-X
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:00:48 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121130.150048.112475787724653030.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354302880.2640.1.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:14:40 +0000
> On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 12:23 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
>> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:23:30 +0100 (CET)
>>
>> > Of course it'd be far better if faulty hardware can be autodetected in
>> > runtime.
>>
>> That is how this must be handled.
>
> Well, we also have the recent extension to ETHTOOL_SSET for forcing
> MDI-X on or off. If it's not possible to detect the faulty hardware
> then the driver can implement this.
Agreed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-30 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-30 13:11 [PATCH] smsc: RFC: Workaround for problems with lan8710 phy auto MDI-X Peter Turczak
2012-11-30 15:23 ` Jiri Kosina
2012-11-30 17:23 ` David Miller
2012-11-30 19:14 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-11-30 20:00 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-12-04 13:19 ` Peter Turczak
2012-12-07 9:58 ` [PATCHv2] " Peter Turczak
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