From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: shemminger@osdl.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] sky2: power down PHY when not up
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:04:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F4ABFB.1020105@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060828170219.598956798@localhost.localdomain>
shemminger@osdl.org wrote:
> To save power, don't enable power to the PHY until device is brought up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Strongly agree, and ACK, but note that users have complained in the past
when they could not configure their MAC when the interface was down.
Users want to eliminate the
ifconfig ethX up
ethtool ...
race window.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 21:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-28 17:00 [PATCH 0/9] sky2 1.7 non-critical bug fixes shemminger
2006-08-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 1/9] sky2: remove cloned/pskb_expand_head check shemminger
2006-08-29 21:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 2/9] sky2: use netdev_alloc_skb shemminger
2006-08-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 3/9] sky2: dont use force status bit shemminger
2006-08-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 4/9] sky2: MSI test timing shemminger
2006-08-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 5/9] sky2: TSO mss optimization shemminger
2006-08-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 6/9] sky2: optimize checksum offload information shemminger
2006-08-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 7/9] sky2: power down PHY when not up shemminger
2006-08-29 21:04 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-08-29 21:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 8/9] sky2: pci post bug shemminger
2006-08-28 17:00 ` [PATCH 9/9] sky2: version 1.7 shemminger
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