From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET/PHY: Eliminate the algorithm of forced ethernet speed reduction Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:54:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20130215.135405.621356363510662497.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1360925459.4709.23.camel@kkk.nita.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: romieu@fr.zoreil.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: kapranoff@inbox.ru Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1360925459.4709.23.camel@kkk.nita.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Kirill Kapranov Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 14:50:59 +0400 > NET/PHY: Eliminate the forced speed reduction algorithm. > In case of the fixed speed set up for NIC > (e.g. ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 100 duplex full) > with ethernet cable plugged off, mentioned algorithm > slows down NIC speed, so the further "hooking up" gives > no result. AFAIK, this behaviour is not RFCs' recommended. > Tested at 2.6.38.7, applicable up to for 3.0.4. > Signed-off-by: Kirill Kapranov , This is formatted very unpleasantly, please put some care into the formatting of your commit message, as if you were writing an important letter to someone and you wanted it to look very nice.