Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2012 15:00:48 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] smsc: RFC: Workaround for problems with lan8710 phy auto MDI-X | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:14:40 +0000
> 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.
Agreed.
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