netdev - Re: [PATCH NEXT 2/2] netxen: support for GbE port settings

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Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:30:22 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	amit.salecha@...gic.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ameen.rahman@...gic.com, anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com,
	sony.chacko@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH NEXT 2/2] netxen: support for GbE port settings

On Mon, 2011-03-14 at 15:15 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:50:03 -0800
> 
> > From: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@...gic.com>
> > 
> > o Allow setting speed and auto negotiation parameters for GbE ports.
> > o Log an error message to indicate duplex setting is not supported in
> >   the hardware currently.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko@...gic.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
> 
> The kernel log is not the place to transmit this information.
> 
> Please work with Ben Hutchings who is working for ways to report
> this to the user in the proper location, via ethtool.

I am?  Well, patches welcome, at least.

Ben.

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