From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, nedev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] forcedeth: fix power management support
Date: 29 May 2007 11:31:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p734plwf02h.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <465237E8.1060005@nvidia.com>
Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> writes:
> This patch fixes the power management functions. It includes lowering
> the phy speed to conserve power.
Shouldn't there be some way to disable this? AFAIK a few old switches
have trouble with this. I assume a new ethtool option would be appropiate
since we expect other drivers to gain this capability too.
Could some of this code be put into the generic MII layer?
-Andi
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-29 8:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-22 0:23 [PATCH 2/4] forcedeth: fix power management support Ayaz Abdulla
2007-05-24 22:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-05-29 9:31 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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