netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/4] forcedeth: fix power management support

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Message-ID: <p734plwf02h.fsf@bingen.suse.de>
Date:	29 May 2007 11:31:18 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, nedev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] forcedeth: fix power management support

Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com> writes:

> This patch fixes the power management functions. It includes lowering
> the phy speed to conserve power.

Shouldn't there be some way to disable this? AFAIK a few old switches
have trouble with this. I assume a new ethtool option would be appropiate
since we expect other drivers to gain this capability too.
Could some of this code be put into the generic MII layer?

-Andi

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