Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1768903Ab2K3TOt (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:14:49 -0500 Received: from webmail.solarflare.com ([12.187.104.25]:38974 "EHLO webmail.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992913Ab2K3TOr (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 14:14:47 -0500 Message-ID: <1354302880.2640.1.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc: RFC: Workaround for problems with lan8710 phy auto MDI-X From: Ben Hutchings To: David Miller CC: , , , , , , Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:14:40 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20121130.122302.1825816242500143123.davem@davemloft.net> References: <8D7E9026-6276-452B-9E0C-AEB8CF38C9FD@netconsequence.de> <20121130.122302.1825816242500143123.davem@davemloft.net> Organization: Solarflare Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.2.3 (3.2.3-3.fc16) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.17.20.137] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 25 On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 12:23 -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Jiri Kosina > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:23:30 +0100 (CET) > > > Of course it'd be far better if faulty hardware can be autodetected in > > runtime. > > That is how this must be handled. Well, we also have the recent extension to ETHTOOL_SSET for forcing MDI-X on or off. If it's not possible to detect the faulty hardware then the driver can implement this. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/