From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>,
Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>,
romieu@fr.zoreil.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] atl1: Main C file for Attansic L1 driver
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:04:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45622654.7030400@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061120135959.66debead@freekitty>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> What I would like is for the mii core to maintain the bits (like advertising)
> in the mii structure and if not running, it should just change the offline
> copy, then when link is brought up use the changes that were requested while
> link was down. Understand?
>
> That's why in the skge/sky2, I keep state bits and don't apply them until
> link is started. If mii (and phylib) did this, I could use them; but as it
> is they require PHY to be powered all the time.
You have the power to change it :) But need to review the other drivers
to assess the impact of the change, of course.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-20 22:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-19 20:30 [PATCH 3/4] atl1: Main C file for Attansic L1 driver Jay Cliburn
2006-11-19 21:46 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-11-19 23:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-20 6:12 ` Chris Snook
2006-11-20 12:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-11-20 18:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-20 19:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-20 20:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-20 21:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-11-20 21:59 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-20 22:04 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2006-11-20 23:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-20 12:39 ` Chris Snook
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-01-11 0:42 Jay Cliburn
2007-01-11 9:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-01-21 21:06 Jay Cliburn
2007-01-22 8:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-01-22 16:48 ` Jay Cliburn
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