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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/9] sky2: power down PHY when not up
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:04:59 -0400
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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