netdev - Re: ata and netdev (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)

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Message-ID: <469509BB.9050405@hacker.dk>
Date:	Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:47:55 +0200
From:	Dan Faerch <dan@...ker.dk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@...xity.net>,
	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: ata and netdev (was Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.23)

Andrew Morton wrote:
> drivers-net-ns83820c-add-paramter-to-disable-auto.patch:
>
> See comments in changelog: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.22-rc6/2.6.22-rc6-mm1/broken-out/drivers-net-ns83820c-add-paramter-to-disable-auto.patch
>
> Dan, Ben: is there any prospect of progress here?
Mmm.. Ben had 2 comments last year:

In regards to the ethtool stuff i coded:

> This part is good, although doing something for copper cards needs doing, 

I know very little about hardware and only own the fiber version of this 
card. Even if i tried to make code for the copper version, it would 
probably blow it up the phy and set the switches on fire ;).

And in regards to the '"disable_autoneg" module argument':

> This is the part I disagree with.  Are you sure it isn't a bug in the 
> link autonegotiation state machine for fibre cards?  It should be defaulting 
> to 1Gbit/full duplex if no autonegotiation is happening, and if it isn't 
> then that should be fixed instead of papering over things with a config 
> option.

This is pretty much Russian to me. 
I wouldnt know where to find the "link-autonegotiation-state-machine-for-fibre-cards" or know what to do with it anyway :).

The "disable_autoneg" is a convenient feature (for me and the other guy who made the same patch last year) and i consider it a harmless feature in every way.
It is simply an 'if'-statement, that skips the "start autoneg" function upon load.
We can simply remove the feature entirely if it is deemed undesirable.

So in conclusion:
- I vote "use the patch as-is", but im fine with it being changed. 
- If it needs support for copper, someone else has to code it.

Regards
- Dan

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