netdev - Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] tg3: fix ethtool autonegotiate flags

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Date:	Tue, 02 Oct 2007 15:02:56 -0700
From:	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	"Andy Gospodarek" <andy@...yhouse.net>
cc:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org,
	"netdev" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.24] tg3: fix ethtool autonegotiate flags

On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 16:16 -0400, Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> Adding that flag in tg3_set_settings seemed like the most logical
> place
> since the driver works fine on boot.  This is just an issue when
> re-enabling autonegotiation, so we should probably nip it there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>

We also noticed this issue recently, but didn't pay too much attention
to it since it was more of a "cosmetic" issue.  The driver behaves the
same since we rely on cmd->autoneg to decide whether to enable autoneg
or not.  Your fix seems reasonable to me.  Thanks.

Acked-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>

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