From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: realtek phy crossover detection Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:04:33 -0400 Message-ID: <48117471.50601@pobox.com> References: <480F81EA.1050005@nvidia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Manfred Spraul , Andrew Morton , nedev To: Ayaz Abdulla Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:57247 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755450AbYDYGEk (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:04:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <480F81EA.1050005@nvidia.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ayaz Abdulla wrote: > This patch fixes an issue seen with the realtek 8201 phy. This phy has a > problem with crossover detection and it needs to be disabled. The > problem only arises on certain switches. Therefore, a module parameter > has been added to allow enabling crossover detection if needed. The > default will be set to disabled. > > > Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla applied