netdev - Re: [PATCH] vlan: propogate ethtool speed values

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Message-Id: <20081028.221256.123614778.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:12:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: propogate ethtool speed values

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:52:36 -0700

> This enables more ethtool information. The speed and settings of the
> underlying device are propagated up. This makes services like SNMP that
> use ethtool to get speed setting, work when managing a vlan, without adding
> silly heurtistics into SNMP daemon.
> 
> For the driver info, just use existing driver strings.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>

This looks good to me, applied to net-next-2.6
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