From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Support arbitrary speeds
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:40:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49679A09.8070105@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1231525443.3006.35.camel@achroite>
>>Doesn't that need to keep the reporting of the unknown speed in parens
>>like the original?
>
>
> We'll only be doing it for known invalid values, so the value isn't
> useful information. I suppose it's conceivable that there are tools out
> there that are parsing the output and expect "Unknown! (0)" when link is
> down.
That was my paranoid assumption :) (albeit for the 65535 value :)
rick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-09 18:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-08 2:03 [PATCH] Make possible speeds known to ethtool Rick Jones
2009-01-08 3:14 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-08 3:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-08 19:11 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-08 19:25 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-08 19:50 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-09 13:16 ` [PATCH] ethtool: Support arbitrary speeds Ben Hutchings
2009-01-09 17:55 ` Rick Jones
2009-01-09 18:24 ` Ben Hutchings
2009-01-09 18:40 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2009-03-06 11:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-03-06 12:27 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-01-09 2:52 ` [PATCH] Make possible speeds known to ethtool Herbert Xu
2009-01-09 3:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-03-06 11:19 ` Jeff Garzik
2009-03-06 13:52 ` Herbert Xu
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