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From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
To: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnxt: Don't print message, if DAC isn't connected on both ends
Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 10:39:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171207103904.8eda285995f3dc159cb62127@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACKFLikeKypJA0V6=RP=g91S4KMVHPpVLwxO5rQkvNYs1f_FEQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 01:24:43 -0800
Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Thomas Bogendoerfer
> <tbogendoerfer@suse.de> wrote:
> > well, it will print the forced rate, if there is one configured and -1 otherwise,
> > if the link is lost or will not come up because of a cable problem. I don't see much
> > value in that...
> >
> The main purpose is to tell the user that the speed he selected for a
> port is no longer supported due to an incompatible speed configured on
> the other port.  This is useful for the user so that he can either
> take action to change the speed or do nothing as he sees fit.

just out of curiosity what's meant my imcompatible speed on the other port ?
Does the message show up continously like in the problem case I already know ?

Thomas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-12-07  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-05 12:33 [PATCH net-next] bnxt: Don't print message, if DAC isn't connected on both ends Thomas Bogendoerfer
2017-12-06 18:49 ` David Miller
2017-12-06 19:27 ` Michael Chan
2017-12-07  9:14   ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
2017-12-07  9:24     ` Michael Chan
2017-12-07  9:39       ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2017-12-07  9:47         ` Michael Chan

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