Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] smsc: RFC: Workaround for problems with lan8710 phy auto MDI-X | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:14:40 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2012-11-30 at 12:23 -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> > 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.
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