From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: ben@decadent.org.uk
Cc: aparames@broadcom.com, bwh@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
jdzheng@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix couple of issues with 'ethtool' get/set API's
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:39:38 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150601.143938.949940905876752935.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1433186963.6319.195.camel@decadent.org.uk>
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 20:29:23 +0100
> On Mon, 2015-06-01 at 12:12 -0700, Arun Parameswaran wrote:
>> But this prevents the 'ethtool' from being used to get/set data of
>> specific PHY's.
>
> That is fine because it is meant to manage the net device's own link (in
> this case, the internal port), not other switch ports.
Ok I'm convinced, I will revert the change in question.
Thanks Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-01 21:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-22 22:43 [PATCH 0/2] Fix couple of issues with 'ethtool' get/set API's Arun Parameswaran
2015-05-22 22:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] ethtool: Clear the command data structure before sending requests Arun Parameswaran
2015-05-22 22:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] ethtool: Fix an issue with handling 'phyad' while updating settings Arun Parameswaran
2015-05-31 19:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] Fix couple of issues with 'ethtool' get/set API's Ben Hutchings
2015-06-01 17:14 ` Arun Parameswaran
2015-06-01 18:07 ` Ben Hutchings
2015-06-01 19:12 ` Arun Parameswaran
2015-06-01 19:29 ` Ben Hutchings
2015-06-01 21:00 ` Arun Parameswaran
2015-06-01 21:39 ` David Miller [this message]
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