netdev - Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Support arbitrary speeds

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Date:	Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:24:03 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Support arbitrary speeds

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 09:55 -0800, Rick Jones wrote:
> Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > +	speed = ethtool_cmd_speed(ep);
> > +	if (speed == 0 || speed == (u16)(-1) || speed == (u32)(-1))
> > +		fprintf(stdout, "Unknown!\n");
> 
> Doesn't that need to keep the reporting of the unknown speed in parens 
> like the original?

We'll only be doing it for known invalid values, so the value isn't
useful information.  I suppose it's conceivable that there are tools out
there that are parsing the output and expect "Unknown! (0)" when link is
down.

Ben.

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