Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1767735Ab2K3UA5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:00:57 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:46698 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933616Ab2K3UAy (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:00:54 -0500 Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:00:48 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20121130.150048.112475787724653030.davem@davemloft.net> To: bhutchings@solarflare.com Cc: jkosina@suse.cz, pt@netconsequence.de, otavio@ossystems.com.br, javier@dowhile0.org, chohnstaedt@innominate.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] smsc: RFC: Workaround for problems with lan8710 phy auto MDI-X From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1354302880.2640.1.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <20121130.122302.1825816242500143123.davem@davemloft.net> <1354302880.2640.1.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 802 Lines: 22 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:14:40 +0000 > 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. Agreed. -- 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/