netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] Ethtool style in kernel network driver configuration.

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Message-Id: <20090611.170722.149033282.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:07:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	nico@....org, mfuzzey@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Ethtool style in kernel network driver
 configuration.

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:52:46 +0100

> A clean solution would disable those modes altogether in the driver.

Absolutely agreed, in this specific case.  If that part of the
chip or the PHY is non-functional, it should be disabled in
the driver entirely.
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