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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <49679A09.8070105@hp.com>
Date:	Fri, 09 Jan 2009 10:40:09 -0800
From:	Rick Jones <rick.jones2@...com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
CC:	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: Support arbitrary speeds

>>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.

That was my paranoid assumption :) (albeit for the 65535 value :)

rick
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html