netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] sfc: 10Xpress: Report support for pause frames

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Date:	Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:30:02 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] sfc: 10Xpress: Report support for pause frames

On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 23:25 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Commits 27fbc7d 'mdio: Expose pause frame advertising flags to ethtool'
> and c634263 'sfc: 10Xpress: Initialise pause advertising flags'
> added to our reported advertising flags.
> 
> efx_mdio_set_settings() requires that all advertising flags are
> also present in the supported flags, so make sure that is true.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> ---
> This fixes a regression in 2.6.32: after resetting a 10Xpress PHY we
> fail to reconfigure it if pause frames are enabled.  Manually changing
> pause frame settings will also fail.

Sorry, I was mistaken - those earlier commits are only in net-next-2.6,
so this is not needed for 2.6.32.

Ben.

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