netdev - Re: [RFC NET-NEXT PATCH 0/6] implement MDI-X set support in Intel drivers

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2012 23:48:05 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC NET-NEXT PATCH 0/6] implement MDI-X set support in Intel
 drivers

On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 10:59 -0700, Jesse Brandeburg wrote:
> This is an update (v2) to the patches sent previously.
> 
> This series implements MDI-X set support in the Intel gigabit ethernet
> drivers.  It specifically allows a user to control the MDI state,
> in order for them to work around issues with broken switches.
> 
> The only change to this series is updated descriptions and an
> addition of reporting the current mdix_ctrl value in the
> "get_settings" functions, which allows the new extended reporting
> in the ethtool app's MDI-X: line
> 
> sent as RFC for now to get feedback while internal testing
> completes. (and net-next is closed)
[...]

This all looks sane.

Ben.

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